Calling all Beachcombers

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 “My mother says you can ask the ocean to bring you something. If you look, she says, you might find it.” Debra Frasier writes this in her book, Out of the Ocean. Whenever we read this book at nighttime, I … Continue reading →

At Loom and Open for Business

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This little Rainbow Loom establishment has taken off in our nest. It first started sans the loom working with just the digits.  One day my little ones discovered tutorials on youtube and instantly the loom came into play. We ran … Continue reading →

Something Had Come

Something Had Come

 The children sensed something was coming while they tossed fitfully in their beds last night. No one noticed the bright red sleigh with nine little reindeer soaring through the twilight sky, no one heard the creaking of the old wooden … Continue reading →

Deck the Halls

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with boughs of rosemary, boxwood and mint. This holy trinity was about the only thing I was able to accomplish up until Saturday when we brought home the tree that added just the right touch to freshen up our winter’s … Continue reading →

Tour de Coop

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I’m no Lance Armstrong so I car-pooled it with this recent community excursion. Even if I partook in doping or any sports enhancing tricks, I could not even come close to finishing a tour, let’s face it not many of … Continue reading →

Shop Small and Be a Local Champion

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There is nothing like a warm welcome when passing the threshold of the door of a friend’s nest or a proprietor’s shop. This week I felt that sincere reception when I visited Jeremy at Red Fox, an unexpected, enviable and … Continue reading →

Experiments Never Fail…

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they yield new, inspiring and beneficial data from the perspective of a scientist. Why don’t we as lay people embrace this philosophy? Why is it so paramount in our lives to grasp the idea of being accepted and dread the … Continue reading →

In the Spirit of America

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let’s take a moment to think about the leaves drifting by our windows, sipping warm cider to defrost our bones from the crisp Autumn chill that arrives this time of year.  Protected in our cozy nest with most of us … Continue reading →

Bring on the after six PM reveling and the macabre!

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  That is what we are into these days for Halloween. How I long for the costumes we created ourselves (and I don’t even  sew) when thought was put into what character we would emulate for one eerie night of … Continue reading →

With a cluck cluck here,

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and cluck cluck there, here a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck cluck. I visited a home recently of a proud chicken owner.  Okay, so she had a few chickens under her care the past twenty years. Let me … Continue reading →