Me: Look guys! The sanguinaria (bloodroot) and Spice bush are in flower. It's Spring! Marcus: Big deal! Sabrina: Look Marcus the catnip is UP!!! It's SPRING!!!!!!! Max: I just wanna know when you're gonna plant the dog nip!! This is soooo unfair! Spring? I wanna go in!
It’s Not Fair!
Four inches of fresh snow? What sorcery is this? Yes, it is New England. If you don't like the weather, stick around, and it'll change. But Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, and I was going to put sugar snap pea seeds into the garden. I was going to put the shovels away today. Am I having …
Stack!
Three cords of wood stacked, at least three more to go. But not yet. We'll wait another three weeks before ordering the next three. But what difference from this: With the help of one of my sons, we "threw" the three cords up over four days of intermittent work. There are now three large stacks, …
Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Awe
March 29 - Awe March is as changeable as February is awful. I might even go so far as to say that it is awe-full. I get tote buckets of sap into the kitchen and boil sap into syrup. Turning sap into syrup? That's a kind of awesome miracle when you think of it. I …
Join the Stacking Challenge at the Festival of Wood!
Back by popular demand - It's the ever-popular Festival Of Wood
A Rainy Sunday
I remember a foggy morning in the coastal community I was living in for a while. It was Traitor's Spring, chilly wet and blowing a full breeze. We drove over to the next town to have breakfast. In those days, there wasn't so much as a single restaurant on the island. The rain came in …
Judy’s Number Game – #63
And the number is 184: Carved sign in Portland, Maine carving of a Southport 30 small eagle based on a design used on a paddlewheel steamboat a Boston Pilot schooner on a sea chest Pattern's hanging in my shop All carvings today. The only one that is not mine is the sign. The rest are …
Tap Time
I set the first spile yesterday, and today I set the second
Last on the Card February 2025
Be gone, February!
Boring!
Last year, on this date, I set my first tap for maple syrup. It's a big deal for me. It helps break the tedium of winter days that sets in around early January. If the sap is rising in the maples, there is a finite amount of time left for winter to run it's course. …
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