On Saturday, I attended a demonstration of Monarch butterfly tagging at Dorothy’s House Museum in Garden Hill. It was fascinating! I had no idea that butterflies were such hardy souls! Amazingly, Monarchs fly in masses to the same winter roosts, often to the exact same trees. I watched as he withdrew each one & attached a tiny ‘tag’. (Click on title for full post)
…and the Value of Trust
I recently had problems with my blog. I couldn’t get access to the admin page, which meant I couldn’t add posts or do anything else. I asked for help on the WordPress forum, but the advice given didn’t help. (Click on title for full post)
Tags: kindness, kindness of strangers, trust
…and there’s another pot luck in the Gore’s Landing Hall tonight — everybody’s invited — really! Just show up with your contribution, dig in and enjoy!
Tags: community dinner, life in the hamlet, pot luck, potluck, rural life
What we human beings have sat ourselves on throughout history would make an interesting dissertation. From hunkering down on our haunches to ornate palanquins and thrones to humble hand-hewn cottage seats…
Tags: chair caning, history of chairs
A man with a violin playing Bach on a cold January morning. Thousands of people hurrying past, most on their way to work. Children hang back, trying to see and hear.
What does it mean?
Tags: social experiment
Women who had sheep were very lucky. Spinning, knitting, weaving and sewing all came from those sheep. And when the woollen clothing and blankets were too worn to patch any more, they could be turned into winter quilts and later, mats to warm the floor. Rug hooking was born!
Tags: creative frugality, rug hooking
“‘Normal’ is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to live in [...]
I’ve had an ongoing challenge with myself to see how low my electric bill can go and how long I can make a tank of heating oil last and how long I can go without filling the car’s gas tank.
Tags: EarthHour
We don’t all need to own every tool for a small job, we aren’t all experts or experienced at everything, and a barter/borrow group would be another great way to bring community together. It should be simple, money-saving and time-saving.
Tags: borrowing, community barter, neighbourhood barter, sharing
See the gorgeous colours of these basket willows. There are 10 different varieties, each a different colour.
Tags: basket, basket willow, Basketry, hand-woven baskets, willow baskets
My set-up for dipping tapers is very homespun and takes up most of my small kitchen. (Everything I make for Smallbones is made on-site, which means that my surroundings are usually in chaos!)
Tags: beeswax candles, beeswax tapers, candles, hand-dipped beeswax candles, making beeswax candles
If you delve a couple of hundred years into human history to see how people lived, you’ll find that almost everybody was an eco-artisan.
Tags: artisan, eco artisan, eco-friendly artisan
Growing basket willows is the next best thing to growing food!
Tags: basket willow, Basketry, sally garden
When I bought this 155-year-old house in 1998 there was a wood stove in the back corner of the keeping room (old time all-purpose room). I was thrilled just imagining the cozy warmth during our long, cold winters.
Tags: community, free firewood, frugal living, wood stove
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