Yesterday, I posted about the rats we are taking care of. We are also taking care of a pair of hamsters: Flapjack and Diablo. Diablo is a timid sort and is usually to be found burrowed into the bedding under the hamster wheel or tucked into a corner. Flapjack is much more active, though he, [...]
There are rats in the house. It’s true. Two of them. One white with faint gray markings, the other white with dark brown markings, and they are — surprisingly — very friendly and sociable creatures. The one with brown markings is named Sonic, the white one Rose, and they belong to friends of ours who [...]
Today, the sky is a glorious clear blue, full of sunshine and smelling of springtime. It is warm enough that only a light jacket is needed, and some braver souls than I are out in nothing more than a t-shirt and jeans. Today, the world around us feels like it is waking up for real. [...]
It started yesterday. The lovely snowflakes that make the world look so pretty started alternating with bouts of freezing rain, leaving a hard crust on top of the snow and making driving treacherous. The news reports were full of warnings, school buses were being cancelled, and The Man We Call Dad saw two major accidents [...]
The November woods have suddenly lost their fire. What was a riot of reds and oranges last week is suddenly a collection of barren branches reaching for the sky. I’m so glad we got out in the woods before the colour left the treetops. I’m doubly glad that we did it with cousins in tow. [...]
Since my neighbour has my one and only (so far) copy of Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery at the moment, I can’t show you pics from the book. I can’t show you my sister‘s fabulously funny Love Gun either (but you can see it here – didn’t they pick the best, most smarmiest guy [...]
::This is a continuation of the last two posts. For the first two parts, read Wildflowers in Our Woods and Our Beloved Woods.:: Embracing change is difficult. No matter who you are, no matter how many times things have changed, when change catches you off guard (and sometimes even when you expect it), something in your heart [...]
To wander the woods near our house is to find a moment of joy. A moment when kids run ahead, enthusiastically shouting out each discovery as they pass by it in a blur, and stopping, just as suddenly, to look at some small detail that catches their fancy. And with woods like these, there is [...]
We have society finches, and they are by nature very, very social. So social, in fact, that they spend each night piled higgeldy-piggeldy on top of each other in the nest. The one, small, nest that really only comfortably fits two, in my opinion. But what do I know — I’m not a society finch. [...]
Every summer, our garden is blessed with an abundance of little spiders. I don’t mind, really, as long as they stay safely outdoors (and I don’t walk into any webs). Lately, there’s been an even bigger spider busily weaving a web… and her name is Little Miss B! It all started with a hula hoop. [...]
