Recent content by SPedigrees

The trick to watching any works by David Lynch is to not try to make sense of it. Best to just let Lynch's art flow over you. LOL

I guess it's just puzzling to me how Oregon, at the same latitude as Vermont (44.00000) can have winter food sources available. Here, even in cities, there are no microclimates, winter-blooming plants, or insect life. Birds that winter-over here subsist on seeds and berries left over from...

That blue of the flowers is both startling and beautiful! I can't get over how you have hummingbirds year round. "Mine" won't be returning until May. That florescent plumage looks like something transplanted from the tropics, and indeed my ruby-throated hummers do spend the bulk of their...

We're back in the polar vortex again with minus numbers F and in the 20s C. I predict this will be one of those years where it goes from winter to summer in a single day. Hopefully that day is not too far off. Dogs are going stir-crazy as their outdoor time is limited to quick runs out to...

This happened to us, especially as our horses aged and could not keep up with it as they had when younger. Back in the day the only people with haying equipment were dairy farmers who needed it to cut their own fields, but when the manufacture of DR mowers filled the need of home-owners wanting...

A lot of people today have forgotten that there is a cycle of plants nourishing animals, and animals in turn nourishing plants. This symbiotic relationship is not surprising, just widely forgotten. For decades while our horses were living, they fertilized our two acres of pasture, and the...

It's no surprise that your cafe has become so successful. Hopefully you'll be able to scale back the hours, while still making a profit. One can't put a price on time.

Time and freedom/autonomy aren't measured in dollars.

True, the container will expire long before the salt does.

I haven't been canning anything recently, but I've been eating preserved fruits in heavy sugar sauce that I put up last summer. On plain yogurt, or cottage cheese, and on rice krispies (the only cold breakfast cereal I like), this taste of summer in mid-winter is wonderful. I did not grow any...

Send some of that warm weather out east here to us, please! We're in the deep freeze still. I will say that the days have become noticeably longer, and we've had some sunny days this past week which adds cheer even if the sunlight has no warmth yet. Better days are coming!

I wouldn't want them tearing up my paved driveway and cement garage floor. Many years ago (before we had a paved driveway) we tried studded tires. Initially they had superior traction to regular snow tires, but the second year those studs had worn smooth, making the surface more slippery than...

We saw Gordon Lightfoot in concert many years ago.

But they haven't killed it, have they? It will grow new berries next year, and berries eaten may spawn new plants! Look on the bright side!

That's the point of berry-bearing shrubs and trees, to feed the birds and other wildlife in winter.