Garden gone
Looks like a cold snap is coming. We may even get some snow. Last year we had a few mild frosts in October, but most of the garden made it into mid-November. If we see high 20s tonight and tomorrow,...
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Odds and ends Friday
Too long since one of these catch-alls… Madelyn: our girl has extended her mobility into the Z dimension; she’s climbing like mad now. Footstools lead to tables lead to trouble. The Bee now pushes...
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Light on the blog as I’ve been heavy on everything else here lately. Accessibility: the WCAG Samurai (Joe Clark &c.) have published the draft of their errata to WCAG 1.0. Also recently, the...
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Odds and ends Thursday
Strawberries! The big patch which Erin planted three years ago is producing berries like mad. Erin took two containers to some friends last night. For the next week or so, we’ll be harvesting them on...
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I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised about this, but there’s a frost warning for tonight. And again Friday. In 2007 we had tomatoes in November. Not this year.
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Let’s review: Jan 5: Madelyn starts the Big Girl sleep plan. I’m happy to say this continues; the Bee is pretty easy to put to bed now. Feb 21: I get an awful flu bug, missing classes and losing eight...
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Odds and ends Sunday
Time for a roundup…. We have two pumpkins growing in a tree! (Closeup here.) About four vines volunteered from the compost pile, this year, and we let them grow. We got a volunteer butternut squash, a...
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Last harvest
Earlier this week our market gardener John Curtis emailed everyone in our Barefoot Gardens CSA, inviting us to come get the last of the greens, before snow and sleet end the season for good. It’s been...
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Odds and ends Monday
It’s been a while since an odds and ends post. So: A week ago Thursday, we finished the first trip of my sabbatical, our annual “School’s out, hit the road” adventure. The girls and I traveled to...
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Bad news first. I am sad to acknowledge that for the second time in 18 months, a chair search for English & Journalism has been halted by the WIU administration. This void is particularly painful...
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