kaydee777
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"Homes aren't refuges from history, they are where history ends up." Bill Bryson in At Home: a Short History of Private Life The magic of...
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kaydee777
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Keeping it simple
This week's kitchen alchemy: a really simple loaf of buckwheat bread. There's no leavening agent or kneading required. Raw buckwheat is...
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kaydee777
- May 23
- 5 min
Patience comes to the bones
Patience isn't my strongest suit. Every day I have to restrain my greedy fingers from reaching out, squeezing, pulling, picking apricots...
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kaydee777
- May 14
- 2 min
Little garden mysteries and milagros
I might have maligned the doves. A few months ago I accused them of eating all the black poppy (Papaver somniferum) seeds which I had...
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kaydee777
- May 10
- 2 min
Sunrise prayer service at Lake Caballo
Monday morning this week I managed my first paddle in two months. The ever present desert spring winds were quiet at this time of day,...
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kaydee777
- May 5
- 3 min
A cast iron alibi
Today's brunch: blue cornbread with fresh picked cilantro, homemade hummus and tangy (homemade) pickles. I am slowly regaining...
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kaydee777
- May 2
- 2 min
Celebrating a working garden
The festival of Beltane, often called May Day in the northern hemisphere, marks the halfway point between the spring Equinox and summer...
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kaydee777
- Apr 27
- 3 min
Notes from inside a glass castle
This week's visit to the bone doctors offices where I am never actually seen by a doctor but by a horde of technicians and assistants,...
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kaydee777
- Apr 21
- 2 min
Rewilding my kerb appeal
After around about five years of no herbicides, and hand weeding the invasive goatshead thorns each monsoon season, native wildflowers...
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kaydee777
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Forgotten milagro
Way back in late January, when I was staying at the Chinati Hotsprings in the far southwest Texas Mexico borderlands, I carved a new...
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kaydee777
- Apr 18
- 3 min
Progress
For the first time in over four weeks (32 days to be exact - more than one lunar cycle) I sat down at my sewing machine today. I have an...
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kaydee777
- Apr 16
- 1 min
In the pink
Once upon a time long ago and far away when I was very young and in another country, I remember growing radishes effortlessly. They...
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kaydee777
- Apr 12
- 4 min
On brokenness
"Things are stronger where they have been broken," says a character in a genre fiction murder mystery novel which I am listening to....
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kaydee777
- Mar 26
- 2 min
Knock knock knocking on heaven’s door
A sign of spring here in the Chihuahuan desert is buzzards (aka turkey vultures - Cathartes aura) floating in huge wakes (yup that's the...
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kaydee777
- Mar 21
- 2 min
Orange King Equinox
Normally I celebrate the equinoxes and solstices with a paddle, preferably at dawn when I can watch the light dance on water. This vernal...
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kaydee777
- Mar 19
- 4 min
One Arm Banditry: entry level
An artist/art therapist friend once told me about the rule of three in relation to critical milestones on a journey to recovery and...
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kaydee777
- Mar 17
- 2 min
Always match your socks to the decor
My hand knit socks do go well with the emergency room decor in my local rural hospital, don't they? I spent a few hours getting X-rays...
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kaydee777
- Mar 16
- 3 min
Ain’t no cure for the daylight savings blues
Sunday just past, the country where I currently live, adjusted clocks in the twice yearly absurdity called Daylight Savings. The change...
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kaydee777
- Mar 7
- 2 min
Opening act for a blossom and carrot coloured Holi
It's sometimes warm enough now to take my dawn cup of tea on the front porch, where I enjoy a ringside seat on the enchanted...
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kaydee777
- Mar 3
- 4 min
City camping with goats
"If I were asked to name the chief benefits of the house I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer,...
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