This is my planting helper today.
MOLLY :)
MOLLY :)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Potting Barn
I mail ordered some plants. They arrived this week. I have ordered plants through the mail before and was NOT successful at getting them to grow. However, after learning more about plants I realized before that I may have planted them upside down (roots facing up)!!! I was reminded of this when I opened the box and saw these bare root perennials. I had forgotten about my previous experience. Somehow I just thought they would arrive in safe little pony packs like you get when you go the nursery. I had anticipated the weather would be spring like today, but NO... It is windy and overcast. Not exactly a great day to be out at the barn. I put on a coat and scarf, turned on the lights in the barn and gathered up my planting partner, Molly.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Worm Moon
I love the Full Moon...
Tonight is the Full Worm Moon -
As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. For this reason, the March full moon is often known as the Full Worm Moon. Northern Native American tribes knew this moon as the Full Crow Moon when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter. They also used Full Crust Moon because the snow cover became crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night.
As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. For this reason, the March full moon is often known as the Full Worm Moon. Northern Native American tribes knew this moon as the Full Crow Moon when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter. They also used Full Crust Moon because the snow cover became crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night.
The Dakota Sioux named it Moon When Eyes Are Sore From Bright Snow. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is a Colonial American variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon. It was considered to be the last full moon of winter.
(article and picture courtesy of "Famer's Almanac") NO.. I am not really that talented.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Who's Bringing Up Baby?
As history progressed for "woman's rights" in the workplace, it has regressed for the woman who wants to stay at home and provide the stability that is so lacking in the American family. The dual income has forced inflation to rise to the point that a single income cannot possibly provide even the basic of necessities. The tug of war has only changed sides.
Once again women really do not have a choice whether they choose to work outside the home or stay at home, just as before. Women are forced to choose between family and work. It is simply not fair. Have we really made any progress?
Haven't we just traded one set of adversaries for another?
(this article appeared in the San Jose Mercury in the mid-late 80's)
WHO IS BRINGING UP BABY?
Remember the old days when it was the new, independent trend for women to take jobs outside of the home? These days the double income is the norm.Only the above-average incomes have allowed some of the nearly-extinct single income families to survive. This gives us a rare opportunity to look at different families and ask the question: does the lack of a parent in the home cause the growing trend of adolescent pregnancies, drug abuse, gang violence, and high school drop outs?
There is no need to lay a guilt trip on women. Whether driven from a need or a desire to gain more material possessions, some women don't have a choice when it comes to working or staying at home to grow the children.
Besides, that, the thought of mere housewifery is downright boring for some. The variety and satisfaction provided by working outside the home gives the edge to the self-actualization process.
But the cost of this is splashed across the news pages and broadcast into our homes on the evening news. Gang violence. Drug running. A country's youth with nothing else of value to which they can gives their lives.
What is it that we work our whole lives for anyway? In the end the goal is to reproduce ourselves, to carry on the work to make the world a better place. Perhaps a better investment would be to spend time raising the children. The day to day presence of an adult in the home tells the children they are important, worthy, and able to make something of value out of their lives.
This may mean a different career for the man or woman of a parental pair. For some couples it would mean sacrificing a higher standard of living. For still others no change is in order, a free country is a free country.
If part of the humans drive to work is to "save the world", perhaps now that effort would be best spent in the home raising those who are our future?
Once again women really do not have a choice whether they choose to work outside the home or stay at home, just as before. Women are forced to choose between family and work. It is simply not fair. Have we really made any progress?
Haven't we just traded one set of adversaries for another?
(this article appeared in the San Jose Mercury in the mid-late 80's)
WHO IS BRINGING UP BABY?
Remember the old days when it was the new, independent trend for women to take jobs outside of the home? These days the double income is the norm.Only the above-average incomes have allowed some of the nearly-extinct single income families to survive. This gives us a rare opportunity to look at different families and ask the question: does the lack of a parent in the home cause the growing trend of adolescent pregnancies, drug abuse, gang violence, and high school drop outs?
There is no need to lay a guilt trip on women. Whether driven from a need or a desire to gain more material possessions, some women don't have a choice when it comes to working or staying at home to grow the children.
Besides, that, the thought of mere housewifery is downright boring for some. The variety and satisfaction provided by working outside the home gives the edge to the self-actualization process.
But the cost of this is splashed across the news pages and broadcast into our homes on the evening news. Gang violence. Drug running. A country's youth with nothing else of value to which they can gives their lives.
What is it that we work our whole lives for anyway? In the end the goal is to reproduce ourselves, to carry on the work to make the world a better place. Perhaps a better investment would be to spend time raising the children. The day to day presence of an adult in the home tells the children they are important, worthy, and able to make something of value out of their lives.
This may mean a different career for the man or woman of a parental pair. For some couples it would mean sacrificing a higher standard of living. For still others no change is in order, a free country is a free country.
If part of the humans drive to work is to "save the world", perhaps now that effort would be best spent in the home raising those who are our future?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTINA
Finally I got the picture loaded. (thx Tonya). Happy 28th!!
I adore you.
Love
mom
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
What I really wanted to do tonight was post a "Happy Birthday" to Kristina. But I have spent the last 1.5 hours trying to figure out how to get a photo I wanted out of my Adobe Photoshop and post it here....and I am so frustrated that...OH well just forget it!
I guess it is time to invest in a great camera and just take great pictures to begin with and forget trying to fix them on the computer.
So instead here is a newspaper article that I have had for years. It is tattered and yellowed. It is good, makes me smile, and I still believe...
"I've heard it said that the world's a dismal place. But, I know better...for I have seen the dawn, and walked in the splendor of the morning sun...blinked at the brilliance of the dew and beheld the gold and crimson of an autumn landscape."
"I've heard it said that the world is sad...I can't agree...for I have heard the cheerful songs of feathered masters...heard the low laughter of the leaves, and the everlasting chuckle of a mountain brook."
"I've heard it said the world's a musty, sordid thing. It can't be true...for I have seen the rain...watched it bathe the earth, the very air...and I have seen the sky, newly scrubbed and spotless, blue from end to end...and I have watched the winter's snow drape tree and bush, to look like nature's freshly laundered linen hung to dry."
"I've heard the world is evil. But they are wrong...for I have known its people...watched them die to save a freedom, bleed to save a life...spend of themselves to stem disaster, of their wealth to ease distress...and I have watched them hope, dream, and pray, side by side."
"I've heard them say these things. But I would disagree...because for every shadow, I have seen a hundred rays of light...for every plaintive note, I've heard a symphony of joy...for every penny weight of bad, I have found a ton of good...good in Nature, in People, in the world."
I guess it is time to invest in a great camera and just take great pictures to begin with and forget trying to fix them on the computer.
So instead here is a newspaper article that I have had for years. It is tattered and yellowed. It is good, makes me smile, and I still believe...
"I've heard it said that the world's a dismal place. But, I know better...for I have seen the dawn, and walked in the splendor of the morning sun...blinked at the brilliance of the dew and beheld the gold and crimson of an autumn landscape."
"I've heard it said that the world is sad...I can't agree...for I have heard the cheerful songs of feathered masters...heard the low laughter of the leaves, and the everlasting chuckle of a mountain brook."
"I've heard it said the world's a musty, sordid thing. It can't be true...for I have seen the rain...watched it bathe the earth, the very air...and I have seen the sky, newly scrubbed and spotless, blue from end to end...and I have watched the winter's snow drape tree and bush, to look like nature's freshly laundered linen hung to dry."
"I've heard the world is evil. But they are wrong...for I have known its people...watched them die to save a freedom, bleed to save a life...spend of themselves to stem disaster, of their wealth to ease distress...and I have watched them hope, dream, and pray, side by side."
"I've heard them say these things. But I would disagree...because for every shadow, I have seen a hundred rays of light...for every plaintive note, I've heard a symphony of joy...for every penny weight of bad, I have found a ton of good...good in Nature, in People, in the world."
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