Pumpkin muffins! Save
I’ve given up waiting for the first light frost I thought I was waiting for and put the plot in the p-patch to bed for the winter. One last weeding, tucking in the garlic and asparagus under a mulch of maple leaves, raking in a sowing of cover-crop seeds (thanks to Celeste!). Maybe I misread the how-to sheet that came with my garlic, but I thought I needed to wait for a light frost before putting the garlic in; now I’m wondering if I misremembered, putting in the garlic three weeks late. The cover-crop labeling certainly seemed to think we …
I am uncertain of my relationship with the notion of “childhood”. There seems to be this pervasive contemporary cultural sense that children should be protected and sheltered from all sorts of things, and that childhood is a time of magical, blissful ignorance. And while it’s certainly too true that there are American children (and others, too) who face too much too soon – hunger, poverty, abuse, homelessness, disease, etc – there are plenty who are indulged and coddled and sheltered from the burden of Responsibility for far too long. I have no problem with kids believing in the Tooth Fairy, …
Big shout out to our neighborhood’s park’s maintenance crew, who has left a huge pile of leaves in the park across the street from us. I don’t know if they planned this deliberately for the enjoyment of the neighborhood’s kids or if they’ve just gotten busy elsewhere. Doesn’t matter, and I don’t care – this pile has been leapt in, rolled in, scuffed through, thrown in all directions both before and after school, and will be one of Caitlyn’s favorite fall memories for at least the next 12 months. Save
A new project: Or maybe I’ll start with this one: I may do some prep for a few more before I actually get started sewing anything. I’ve got the sewing table at it’s “tall” setting which makes cutting so much easier. Or maybe I should move all the other stuff off the table so it isn’t so blastedly difficult to adjust when I need it.
At the risk of offending someone: It’s election day. I’m “watching” returns by refreshing and refreshing four or five news sites. It’s depressing. And it’s frustrating. On the radio today, there was yet another bit of predictive reporting, detailing how the Democrats were going to lose their majorities to conservatives who have campaigned on undoing everything from the past two years. Conservatives who are endlessly in favor of reducing government, reducing taxes. This story was immediately followed by a conversation with someone from the Army Corps of Engineers concerning the weak and damaged status of many river levees in Washington …