Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
120KM/H Winds from the Southeast.
We had a hurricane blow through our neck of the woods early last week. It ravaged our forests, littered our roads with trees and their branches, and picked up our greenhouse like a kite and flew it for a bit before dropping it like a child discarding a toy. If this devastation had happened a [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Homesteading,Marriage by Amanda
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
A good day to Fly
Last Winter there was three feet of snow for most of January. This Winter, although we have had wind storms, it has been very mild. Honeybees do not fly if it below about 8 degrees celcius. We beekeepers use the rule 10C and it’s warm enough to go into the hives. Last year, February 6th, [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Beekeeping,Friends,Growing,Homesteading by Amanda
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Grieving Indian
This is where I was on Thursday evening last week. A friend’s house with a bed. And I was very grateful. On my needles are baby booties that I get to make for a friend who’s due in a couple weeks. It is their first. I am excited. This is where I was after driving [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in General,Musings by Amanda
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
BC Grown
I entered the Tru Value (our grocer) with my plastic green shopping basket. My mission: to find something edible for dinner. In a grocery store, you’d think this wouldn’t be very hard. But in my recent book perusing, I’d come across some writing by Michael Pollen. His advice for good eating is to “Eat food, [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Friends,Musings by Amanda
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
To Becky with Love
I’ve been knitting for a friend who has suffered a great loss recently. I’ve knitted a hat with earflaps. To my astonishment, the more I knit, and thought and leaned consciously toward my friend in Inverness, Scotland, the more the toque ressembled the colours of Scotland. The yarn is spun in Japan. It is 60% [...]