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Lighting a Candle
“They keep our vegetables fresh for three to four weeks, depending on the type of crop. They are very good in a hot climate such as ours [Sudan] where fruit and vegetables get spoiled in one day,” she told Practical Action. “Since I learned how to make zeer pots, our life has been so much better.”
Keeping fold cold without refrigeration
Posted: 2025 Feb 14
Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Feb 13
Poetry of the Week
Roadrunner
- by Sharlot Mabridth HallOut of the western chaparral
Where the raw, new highways run,
He flashes swift as a rainbow flame
And races the morning sun.
He perks and preens with lifted crest,
He dances, heel and toe.
He will jig and flirt in the roadway dirt —
Then — off like a shot he'll go.Posted: 2025 Feb 13
Tag Archives: Gardening
The Paving Stones of Good Intentions
Gardening follies. Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Gardening, Miscellany, Other Plants
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Spared
Stay tuned. And if you see a squirrel, yell at it. Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, Photos of Fauna, Photos of Flora
Tagged Gardening, Mammals, Other Plants
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Anonymous, Eponymous, Eunonymous
Who thought up this plant, anyhow? In fact, who thought up any of them? Continue reading
Snip Snip
Pruning trees – the activity, the judgement required, the variables – is a metaphor for deciding where to put my own life energies: which branches to keep, and which will never amount to anything. This one will never come … Continue reading
You in Your Small Corner…
Driving over the bridge across the canal, I enter the stretch of this artery that is — to my Western Canadian sensibilities — just a few feet too narrow for four lanes of traffic zooming to and from the downtown. … Continue reading
Ouch and Double Ouch
I feel the burn instantaneously. The merest touch, no more than a glancing blow, scalds left forearm and leg. I don’t see my life pass before my eyes, exactly, but it’s a close thing. My attacker has been lying in … Continue reading
Let Loose the Tweezers of War
It’s war. Oh yes, I know all about the mixed records of our ongoing, all-out shooting wars and police actions: the War on Terror, the War on Drugs (notably not a War on Addictions), the Wars on Oceanic and Online … Continue reading
Specialization is for Insects
Balancing potted shrub on right hip, I walk carefully along the rock wall dividing our property from a lightly wooded and heavily weed-infested area. Returning to the driveway, I repeat my trek six times. All shrubs present and accounted for, … Continue reading