cultivating a sustainable life
I wasn’t looking forward to our planned trip to the pumpkin patch this year. The weather had been particularly cold and drizzly the day of our scheduled outing, but our group of homeschooling friends heads out there together every year and we certainly didn’t want …
We seem to have reverted back to the rainy winter weather that we only managed to get rid of a few weeks ago, getting six continuous days of rain, something that’s apparently only happened here in July four times in recorded history (and there’s wet …
It has been an incredibly wet June in this corner of the globe. We’ve had rain on 18 of the past 25 days, and I’m starting to worry about the welfare of my poor tomatoes, eggplants and peppers. It’s been downright cold in the evenings, …
We’ve had two gorgeous days in a row and the flowers are bustin’ out. The view down our street is one of my favorite things about this house, the cherry trees are amazing. The photo doesn’t show it very well, but when they planted the …
We made our way to the property today for a meeting with the septic engineer, and it turns out we’re not going to get away with installing a basic septic (we have to have a more advanced waste treatment system put in). It wasn’t a …
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. We’ve had a few things going on around here, but I hope to be back in action within the next few days.I just had to share this incredible photo that my daughter took from the back seat of …
It’s really hard to have the February blahs when the sun is shining. It’s even more difficult when you step outside and notice that there are flowers blooming! The crocuses are poking their heads out of the soil… …and the apricot tree is starting to …
There’s been a lot of talk around the blogosphere lately about trying to avoid the February blahs. While I usually suffer from this seasonal affliction, I’ve been surprisingly chipper lately. Today was an exception though. The weather has been drizzly for the past few days …
We got blasted by another wicked windstorm today, the fourteenth so far this winter (previously, we might have seen two during a normal winter). The kids and the dog had a ball running around in the wind, but the poor birds were battered. We drove …
We woke up to another snowy scene this morning. It was very wet though and quickly turned to slushy rain. Even though the snow wasn’t terribly bothersome for most people, it ended up causing the roof of our biggest stadium, BC Place (where the opening …