Today, I was reminded that in the world of monarch conservation, timing is everything. This has been a slow year for my summer conservation hobby of raising monarchs. The adults were slow to show up in my yard. The ability to find eggs and larva has been arduous at best, depite the plethora of milkweed…
Words need more substance than just inclusion in verbiage. There needs to be meaning AND intent behind them. While in grad school for my Environmental Education degree, we were asked in one of the theory courses whether education (about the environment) is enough (for community members). Is knowing about environmental problems and issues like the…
Years ago, we would take a few vacation days in the summer to go to the Wisconsin Dells, the Waterpark Capital of the World, or at least it used to be known as that. When our boys were younger we would pack up and go, staying one or two nights, usually not more than that….
Today is Poetry Friday. I was not sure I would write today as we are headed into a busy weekend at our house. Tomorrow is graduation, following COVID guidelines and much delayed, our youngest will officially complete high school and enter the next chapter of his life. There will be a small, family-only, celebration at…
Ever since I started making fabric masks for PPE, I am obsessed with fabric! I cannot seem to stay away from the fabric store! And, even if I go there to get something other than fabric – like thread, elastic, interfacing, or another craft item, I come out with fabric! Today was a case in…
What appeared you might ask? Anger. I answer. What are you angry about? You inquire further. I answer that I suppose I am angry about many things right now. But, last night I was sent over the edge. We discovered that some of our window sills are rotten at our house. They are a high-end…
After dinner, last night, my 25-year-old son and I decided to take a hike today. Ordinarily, he would not be home and available to do such a thing, but in times of COVID, one must improvise. I felt the hike would do us both some good and suggested the Prairie’s Edge Loop Trail at the…
It may or may not be true, but I suspect I am partial to one side of my front garden bed. Weeding usually starts on one side, my photographs are taken from one side, and I seem to appreciate one side more than the other. Today, whilst I weeded, I happened to look up when…
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