We’re working on a converting our front lawn into veggie beds, and the unseasonably warm and dry weather has helped us get a jump start on sheet mulching. Goodbye lawn, hello permaculture landscape! While Tum Tum and I spread cardboard, straw, manure and compost, Little Hen and her Daddy were busy building cold frames out [...]
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Posted in Nature Table on Feb 8th, 2010
The intense sunshine this afternoon has all of us anxious for spring, but this morning’s hard frost was a good reminder that winter hasn’t left us yet. It’s clear we’re moving toward spring, though – we opened the kitchen window to get a better listen to the a few birds singing this morning.
Our nature table [...]
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I found these other-worldy fungi while mulching our future veggie garden on Saturday (these are a species of Inky Cap). The children were resting, and the sun was shining, so I dashed out to work on our sheet-mulched, mounded rows that will be next year’s kitchen garden (the garlic, shallots, onions, leeks are already in [...]
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Posted in Nature Table, The Gift of God on Nov 13th, 2009
The two younger children are still sick, but Little Hen is perfectly healthy, so we dropped her off at homeschool co-op this morning. On the way home, the rain was pounding and the wind was whipping the trees about.
We came home and curled up on the sofa – me with a mug of coffee and [...]
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The wind and rain have settled in, and the nights are getting pretty chilly. It is finally feeling like fall, so this morning the girls and I did some dusting, got out a few fall decorations, and put the autumn cover on the duvet. I hope to get the window hangings and more decorations out [...]
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Posted in Books and Reading, Nature Table on Sep 4th, 2009
Yesterday afternoon, while Firecracker played with her magnet dolls, and Tum Tum slept, and I was mopping the floors yet again, Little Hen was a very busy girl – running upstairs, to her room, getting into the kitchen cupboards, and heading back upstairs again, gleaning items from around the house to remake the nature table.
Even [...]
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Posted in Learning, Nature Table, Outings on Aug 21st, 2009
Some pictures from our nature hike at Mt. Tabor Park (which is fast becoming our favorite day hike – right in the middle of the city, great hills, great hiking, lots of nature to examine and exlpore!). Check out those helicopters!
Firecracker stood for a long time and watched the water pouring in at the reservoir.
Little [...]
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Some more shots from yesterday’s trip to Sauvie Island Farms.
Little Hen in the raspberry canes,
where we found an old abandoned nest, lined with feathers and seed fluff.
Firecracker helped her auntie pick blueberries.
And the flowers were absolutely stunning.
The biggest surprise of the day was finding a nest with four baby birds in the middle of the [...]
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The Magic Onions is hosting a Friday Nature Table group. I should have posted yesterday, but life got busy, so for us, it’s a Saturday Morning Nature Table sharing.
This was a great idea – I was able to catch up on a LOT of blogs I haven’t had the time to get back to in [...]
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Little Hen has been at Waldorf Art Day Camp (and thus immersed in magical-make-believe) for the past two weeks, . Her sister misses her terribly while she’s gone (”Is it time to pick up sissy yet? Is it time to pick up sissy yet???”), but we’ve been trying to do something special in the mornings [...]
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