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Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Duendesday: Summer’s End
{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} So, a couple of weeks ago we managed to squeeze a camping trip into our crazy schedule which was good for all of us, even though we left a little early due to the rain, we got to meet up with a solid bunch of lovelyContinue reading “Duendesday: Summer’s End”
Tuesday Happens
We used to have this lovely large patch of Common Milkweed in the upper back field – I based an entire garden around it, separating it into large wedges with picket fencing (which my marvelous man made out of pallets) and dreaming of a classic or at least interesting sundial in the center. Something happenedContinue reading “Tuesday Happens”
Tuesday on the Homestead
There is a moment when our cultivation feels positive – a flush of growth – flowers, beans, herbs, and nightshades: tomatoes, tomatillos, husk cherries, wonderberries, peppers, eggplants (no potatoes this year, can you believe it? I love growing potatoes but couldn’t do it this year), grapes, blackberries, and apples. Despite the weather (so dry inContinue reading “Tuesday on the Homestead”
Musing on a Monday
The Apple Orchard Come let us watch the sun go downand walk in twilight through the orchard’s green.Does it not seem as if we had for longcollected, saved and harbored within usold memories? To find releases and seeknew hopes, remembering half-forgotten joys,mingled with darkness coming from within,as we randomly voice our thoughts aloudwandering beneath theseContinue reading “Musing on a Monday”
Duendesday: the Crazies
{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} This kid is cray cray. She’s losing teeth all over the place (naturally, just seems all the time!), she’s foraging, gardening, climbing, dancing, swinging on the swing, making paper airplanes, making up games (like Belly Target – and yes, she wrote the numbers backwards because sheContinue reading “Duendesday: the Crazies”
Tuesday 2 Do & Big Happenings
Do you want the little news first or the big news? Alright, the latter it is – Big News: we are revamping our business acumen and to do so, we need to take a break…likely until October. I know. Big. That’s a big chunk of free floating Rollson’s with no income or safety in anyContinue reading “Tuesday 2 Do & Big Happenings”
Monday’s Musing
Burning the Old Year BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper,sizzle like moth wings,marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves aContinue reading “Monday’s Musing”
Duendesday: strange days
{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} Midsummer – full of plans and arrivals. It’s been a little extra hot and thick around these parts (something that is terribly affecting many good folk everywhere) – leading us to sneak out to a park or run errands when it breaks for a bit, orContinue reading “Duendesday: strange days”
Tuesday Happens
Everyday feels both more surreal and more grounded as we focus on our place in the world. We’re here for the apples and the sugarbush, we’re making friends with the rampant rose, and we’re occasional acquaintances with wild strawberries and sunchokes. We invite some of the insects to join us – certainly the dragonflies andContinue reading “Tuesday Happens”
Rock Bottom Homestead 