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The latest from Our Little House in the Big Woods
- Spring is bustin’ out all over (and a blogging milestone)
- Traveling from little house in the woods to big city on the coast
- Healing a broken toe, watching the snow melt
- The maze is your labyrinth
- Mindfulness, equanimity–and a broken toe
- The perils and ecstasy of walking on snow
- Loss and gain
- Sad transitions
- Snow, snow, snow and it’s really __ __ __ __ __
- Vegetable scrap smiley for our company
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Tag Archives: garden
Should I stay or should I go?
I am feeling so much indecision these days. Are any of you feeling the same? Let’s take a simple action like driving into the “big city” of Marquette tomorrow or the next day. I need new summer pajamas, a lightweight … Continue reading
Posted in August, 2020
Tagged COVID, family, garden, indecision, Lake Superior, Marquette, photography, summer, travel, undecided, Upper Peninsula
43 Comments
It’s life and death for them today
Fingers in brown sandy soil thinning crowded avenues of carrots. I used to despair thinning these deep tap roots stretching down past undulating worms. How could one decide carrot life or death? How could one presume to kill this one … Continue reading
Posted in August 2018
Tagged carrots, death, garden, gardening, life, love, spirituality, thoughts, weeding, writing
35 Comments
Coming into wholeness
I have been thinking a lot about wholeness this week. My friend, Deb, shared a post on Facebook recently about how she’s achieved wholeness in several areas of her life: as a parent, as a spouse, as a descendant. She … Continue reading
Posted in August 2018
Tagged clarity, division, garden, inspiration, life, photography, positivity, suffering, thoughts, wholeness, worthiness
31 Comments
Hello, mouse & other early morning ponderings
1. I have nothing to say and should be getting ready for work. 2. A perfect time to write a blog post! 3. If, by the time this post ends, the fingers type all nonsense–well, it’s easy enough to delete. … Continue reading
Posted in September 2014
Tagged blogging, garden, life, mouse, personal, spirituality, thoughts, winter
64 Comments
Slow down, you’re movin’ too fast, you got to make the morning last…
Sitting in a quiet house this morning sipping hot dark coffee with soy creamer from a deep blue mug. Not running hither and yon, caught up in the what-must-be-done-next. Excuse me, I will wander out on the deck to give … Continue reading
Posted in July 2014
Tagged Facebook, garden, happiness, Lake Superior, life, ordinary, personal, slow down, thoughts, Upper Peninsula
23 Comments
Sweet potatoes, kale & avocado before flying to a tropical vacation
I’m making breakfast now, simmering sweet potatoes on stove top while simultaneously sautéing onions and the very last of the kale (garden kale is always sweetest after it’s been frosted and picked) and, OK, maybe browning the onion a little … Continue reading
Is it possible to pick kiwis in Michigan in late October?
What constitutes an ordinary adventure in our lives? How do we discover the extraordinary hiding amidst the ordinary? Is it possible to discover magic in our life when we least expect it? Is it possible to feast upon tropical fruit … Continue reading
Posted in October 2013
Tagged adventure, autumn, garden, life, magic, miniature kiwis, thoughts, Upper Michigan
32 Comments
Gratitude for sh*t
Gentle reader, We’ve now reached Week 3 of this Gratitude series. This week something happened. I hesitate to tell you what. It might offend your sensibilities. Literally, this might stink. It is a very sh*tty blog. But let us persevere! … Continue reading
Posted in October 2013
Tagged blessings, garden, gratitude, humor, Keweenaw Bay, life, thoughts
39 Comments
“Anyone who can’t figure this out is an idiot!”
People will fight about anything–I am now 100% sure. We were forced to buy a new Cuisinart food processor this week. (Our old one just celebrated its 20th birthday, give or take a half dozen years.) We chop, slice and … Continue reading →