Posted in Children, Family, Gardening, Spring on Mar 26th, 2012
Oh, Portland. I love you but this weather is a little ridiculous. We don’t get much snow here, especially not in March, but on the third day of spring we woke up to an inch of snow. Sairshe was a little sad to see the flowers she planted covered in snow. By the time I [...]
Posted in Gardening, Holidays, St. Patrick's Day, The Outdoors, Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2012
You can find my writing today at the EcoEtsy blog where I have a post up all about clover and eco-friendly lawn care. Fitting for St. Patty’s Day, don’t ya think? In real life I’m hanging out with my 2 little Irish lasses, at least one of whom is sporting a new shamrock hair clip. [...]
Posted in Gardening, The Outdoors on Mar 14th, 2012
A few weeks ago, Sairshe and I dug up some old plants and prepared a little patch of dirt in front of our house to plant some peas. Somehow that little project turned into a much bigger one. Funny how those things happen. We’ve been wanting to reduce the amount of grass that we have [...]
Posted in Children, Family, Gardening, Spring, The Outdoors on Feb 24th, 2012
I’m tired of my front steps looking like this. I try to ignore the dead plants and broken planter every day as I rush in and out of the house with 2 kids and their accompanying backpack, coats, books, stuffed animals and everything else they want to take with them into the car and then [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Gardening, Places, Seasons, Summer, The Outdoors, travel on Oct 22nd, 2009
. . . and do I have a lot to share. I certainly didn’t intend to have such a long blogging hiatus but it happened anyway. It started with my summer from hell. Soon after the lovely birthday party, summer camp started. Lots went wrong- mostly database issues resulting in registration issues and unhappy parents [...]
Posted in Gardening, The Outdoors on Jun 10th, 2009
I’ve survived the toddler birthday extravaganza, complete with another cake and more celebrating on June 2, her actual birthday. The summer camp I direct starts in a week and a half and I’ve been busy getting ready for it. I finally had a weekend to relax last weekend and it was so nice! With the [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Create, Felted Sweaters, Nature, Seasons, Spring, The Outdoors on Apr 28th, 2009
Oh spring, I do love thee. There’s nothing like a walk in the woods, or just in the neighborhood, to find some gorgeous crafty inspiration. Why not start in my own backyard?’ I do wage war on dandelions each spring but when it comes down to it, it’s hard for the scientist in me to [...]
Posted in Children, Create, Family, hats, knitting, Nature, The Outdoors on Dec 17th, 2008
Last I updated, I was on my way to L.A. for a sunny Thanksgiving. It rained a tiny bit but we still had more sun than if we’d stayed home. We came back and made the trek to Mt. Hood to pluck our tree out of the wilderness. It was a gorgeous day and …
Posted in Autumn, Celebrate, Create, knitting, Nature, Seasons, socks, The Outdoors on Sep 22nd, 2008
And a contest! Details about that after the pictures. Even though the weather was grey and drizzly this weekend (how quickly weather changes in Portland!) we spent a lot of time outside. Here are some pretties from the weekend. We went to the park and there were already lots of leaves on the ground. It [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Children, Family, Gardening, Seasons, Summer, The Outdoors on Jun 9th, 2008
It’s windy and cold and the weather doesn’t seem like it’ll be summer-like anytime soon. Despite that, I picked a whole lot of strawberries from the plants in my front yard today and that feels like a summer activity to me! Sesame won’t eat strawberries if I offer them to her at mealtimes while she’s [...]
