Today my girl turned sixteen…..months. To celebrate, I took her to the Plaza Library. There’s a great section for kids, with lots of open space for running (or crawling) around. There are kid-size chairs and tables, and lots of little activity things. There’s even a puppet theater with puppets, and coloring tables with a writable surface and a […]
I’ve decided that even more than I love fall, I love the changing of the seasons, and all that comes with them. There’s a freshness, yet a familiarity, in each season. In the fall, it’s the way the world is filled with red and yellow and gold, and the way the briskness of the air contrasts so sharply with the […]
Things got a little wild in the kitchen last night. Around 5 pm I finished blending the peculiar purple porridge, and poured it into my Yogourmet for several hours of fermentation (I usually let it go for 8-14 hours to make sure I build up a nice population of happy healthy critters). Half-past midnight as I […]
Starring today on my blog is…..ta-da! my illustrious Vita-Mix blender. This is an incredible high-powered mixing machine that can chop any and all rough-and-tough veggies, blend all sorts of smoothies, shakes, and frozen treats, grind grain, knead bread, cook soup, make instant compost and natural pesticides, break rocks (I think) etc, etc. I have had it since Christmastime last year […]
Here’s a little blue dress I created for Zia. I saw a dress that I liked at an expensive children’s clothing shop, and used the idea to design this one. I made it at the end of the summer, but she’ll be able to wear it in the spring and even into next summer, because […]
