Tag: around the house (Page 12 of 27)

Go slowly & mind that knife

June 8, 2012 / Lindsey / 1 Comment

Oh goodness, the universe does have jarring ways of bringing us back down to earth sometimes, doesn’t it! I’ve been scurrying around this past week feverishly pounding out one thing after another from the bottomless bucket of to-dos, in preparation to leave for 3 weeks. And so while innocently chopping onions for salads on Wednesday morning, my attention must not have been focused enough in the here-and-now — so the knife fixed that for me by slicing the edge off my finger and part of my nail. Thoughtful, yes?

Man it hurt; fingers have a lot of nerve endings. (But it could easily have been so much worse!)

Let us all remember to go slowly and mind that knife.

But now two days later, it’s already so much better! I’m quite amazed; it’s nice to observe my body in action, regenerating and healing itself so naturally and effortlessly.

I want to post some recent garden pictures for you, so I will hopefully do that tonight. And then we’re off tomorrow on vacation! It is coming at such a perfect time. We can’t wait!! I’m not sure if I’ll be posting stuff while on our trip… maybe, maybe not, we’ll see.

I hope you all have a really wonderful couple weeks, if I don’t connect with you until we get back!

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This Memorial Day Weekend

May 28, 2012 / Lindsey / 2 Comments

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The Living Paper Shredder

April 21, 2012 / Lindsey / 5 Comments

Very handy!

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Garden action this week~

April 20, 2012 / Lindsey / 8 Comments

Stormy sky. (The tall things are garlic.)

Ohh it’s been another full week! I haven’t felt too terribly inspired to spend much extra time at the computer this week; I’ve been pounding out the moneymaking work and then happily slamming the laptop lid when I’m through for the day!

The week slipped by so quickly, I hardly remember the details of it, but I did get a wonderful day of work done in the garden. It was the perfect day; the weather (upper 70s) was even better than summertime because in summer you can’t reasonably work straight through the midday and still be comfortable. And I gardened to the scent of lilacs the entire day — oh my! What a fabulous treat that was. And the yards are getting so green and beautiful, the trees all leafing out, the tulips still blooming, the lilacs, the sound of lawnmowers, the smell of grills barbecuing delicious food! This is truly one of my favorite times of year. Spring and fall, I just love ’em.

So onto some pictures for you. Things are going very nicely in the garden — with this warm weather and some rain, stuff is growing fast. We’re eating chives, arugula, and masses of beautiful fresh oregano, which is such a treat in Greek salads — I pile it on. It’s the more mild variety, by the way, which I like a lot better than that really pungent Oregano which is strong enough to burn a hole through your salad.

Oregano

Baby radish plants, (c) The Herbangardener

Baby radishes

Lettuce

I uncovered one of the lasagna beds and planted it this week.

Potato sprouts

Arugula

The onion sets grow so fast!

Peas

Wheat (planted last fall as an experiment)

'Black Kabouli' garbanzo bean plant

Playing with my rotting leaf compost

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Thrift Store Things

April 5, 2012 / Lindsey / 4 Comments

I do love thrift stores. I love donating old stuff to them, and finding new clothing and treasures to bring home. Here are some recent things that have found a new home at our place:

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– A funny little majolica cream pitcher, and a porcelain Easter egg jar which happens to be ‘born’ the same year I was. Not sure why I bought the pitcher, really, cause I don’t need it, but then again I didn’t need the egg either. I liked them though, and I guess that’s reason enough!

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– A cast iron muffin pan for $3! I can’t wait to use this… to lift out a steaming muffin, with crispy crust all around!

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– And this one’s really cool. It’s probably an equestrian reflector thingy, but I’ve been wearing it while riding my bike in an ongoing and slightly obsessive quest to maximize my visibility to drivers. I say ‘probably’ because the tag is in Norwegian. And how a Norwegian equestrian reflector would have made its way to the racks of a junky Colorado thrift store is a story I’d dearly love to hear.