Sometimes the happenings are subtle – sometimes not. I’m reading this lovely book which channels the Japanese and Chinese calendar custom of tracking time via the changes in nature (the Japanese alter the classic Chinese, in lieu of their different weather/flora/fauna/environment and awareness/fashions) – the author tries to explain some of the enigmatic phrases whichContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Monday Musings
Despite its so-called progress, our modern society tends to look back to a simpler time, even though pioneer days were probably harder and more isolated than life today. This yearning isn’t nostalgia, which is a longing for an airbrushed memory. It is a genuine subconscious draw to knowledge that has been obscured by innovation, progress,Continue reading “Monday Musings”
Friday in Pictures: Nesting
let the pictures tell you their story
Duendesday!
{a day to check in with an almost 10 yr old’s doings} Conversation around the kitchen island this morning (I drinking a second cup of tea, D sipping on hot chocolate, Josh making crackers and trying to call the State Dept but frustratingly being on hold for over an hour/dropped/phone dying – losing it) revolvesContinue reading “Duendesday!”
Tuesday Happenings
Whoooosh – and it’s Tuesday already! Summer is almost upon us, though the weather is already here: sunny, hot, lush, with immediate needs to tend the garden. Most of the squashes are in – I’ve got to get those Wee-Be-Mini-Pumpkins and Delicata in, and the Summer smaller squashes are ready – pattypans, lemon squashes, andContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings”
Recipe Thursday: Breakfast Fried Rice
What do they say – that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Most days at Rock Bottom breakfast is a banana and a piece of sourdough toast, or some homemade yogurt with a little maple or honey on top and an apple – and coffee (though I have switched to black teaContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Breakfast Fried Rice”
Duendesday!
{a day to check in with an almost 10 yr old’s doings} And what could be better than new chick day? Not much around here. 17 happy healthy little kooky chicks arrive in a little cozy box at the Post Office, ready for pick up at 6:30am (I’m sure they can’t stand to have themContinue reading “Duendesday!”
Tuesday on the Homestead
What’s Happening? Seedlings are still on sale – available for your gardens: melons, Summer and Winter squashes, tomato seedlings are up, peppers, calendula, borage, cukes, marigolds but it’s official, the early cabbages bit the dust. Oh well, I’ll try again for succession cabbages. New Summer Syrups – Lilac and Honeysuckle, and they are both certainlyContinue reading “Tuesday on the Homestead”
Monday’s Muse
Before Summer Rain ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Suddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don’t know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total silence. From the nearby wood you hear the urgent whistling of a plover, reminding you of someone’s Saint Jerome: so much solitude and passion come fromContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”
Recipe Thursday: Picnic!
Putting up was definitely a thing when I was little. Bushels of tomatoes became canned tomatoes and tomato sauce (we weren’t sophisticated enough to eat salsa or make pizza sauce – pizza, in fact, was really something we just had at school, in squares, with just cheese. We did not have pizza places and didContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Picnic!”
