I haven’t yet figured out how to link up our pictures yet, so you’ll have to make do with a text-only post.
Sleeping with the balcony door wide open? Heaven. There are no bugs to fly in and menace you all night, so there are no screens on the windows. And it is warm here – [...]
Archive for May, 2008
A few notes
Posted in adventure, travel on May 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Retreat
Posted in Project 365, adventure, parenting on May 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
As I’ve been looking forward to this trip I’ve realized that I have been framing it in a particular way in my mind. Just as people pay to live in old monasteries and write, or rent a cabin in the woods to reconnect with family, this is a time of retreat for us. [...]
Inspiring
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Love, love the thought of covering our kitchen cabinets with fabric. Ours are ugly 80’s white melamine that are chipping. This might be a fairly frugal way to change the look and extend their life.
Obviously, a project for the future.
(I bought a brown Zig marker today and am really excited to see how brown ink [...]
Persistence and flow
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other day, I was charmed to notice that the pair of English House sparrows nesting in a hole in our bumpy, gnarled Manitoba Maple was trying to maneuver a Kleenex into their nest. The birds are small, their hole in the tree is small, and the Kleenex…not so small. Persistent little birds, [...]
The list defies laws of reality by simultaneously shrinking and growing.
10 minutes in bed
Posted in art, handmade on May 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
waiting for the kids to finish brushing their teeth and find their PJs.
New waterbrush? Fabulous. Instant gratification watercolour painting is hard to over-rate.
Truth in advertising
Posted in Project 365, homeschooling on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I nearly chose the macro shot of Ur-Oma’s tea set for my Project 365 picture, but it didn’t feel quite true. Homeschooling tea rituals can take on a mythical quality. And our own personal attempts at them can seem so utterly inadequate by comparison.
Macro can lie by omission. Articles and blog postings can [...]
Passionate women who are also mothers
Posted in Project 365, adventure, homeschooling, parenting, quotes on May 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
“[Mothers can] put their own lives and interests on hold as a sacrifice to their children. As noble as this seems, [it is] a sort of negligence: withholding who she is – the best part of herself – from our children.” Monte and Karen Swan
This quote surfaced in a conversation I was having [...]
Surface tension holds it together
Posted in Project 365, adventure, homeschooling, parenting on May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is finally raining. We have had the driest spring I can remember and even now the rain is light. But it is rain. The tulips, brave, bold tulips first from the frost, were beaded with drops yesterday morning. I grabbed my camera, thinking, “Surface tension!” I was teaching a small [...]
Knitting
Posted in Project 365, Project Spectrum, handmade, knitting on May 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My first real lace project. At least, the first one off the needles, for there is that languishing lace scarf of blue heathered lace-weight alpaca in a bag…haven’t worked on it in a year, for shame.
Project: Lace Ribbon Scarf free from Knitty.com
Yarn: Garnstudio Silke Tweed colour 21
I had only 100g of this, and it [...]
