New Year is Here
Happy 2022 to you all! I hope your year has been gentle so far. We Monks made it through the holidays with fair health and happy hearts. It was, honestly, a wonderful little season with family and snow (and sled races) and twinkly lights. If…
The Company of Fluffs
At current count, we have three cats more or less occupying our yard. (Do we have a dog? Yes. Does our dog chase cats, or follow cats, or pay any attention at all to cats? No, because our dog thinks she’s a cat, and therefore…
The Whims of Flowers
Behold, the sunflowers I did not plant! Note they are accompanied by other wild flowers I also did not plant. See them all thriving alongside the onions I did plant. Our yard has gone through some big changes this year. We put in new garden…
Summering Along
Summer came on hot–like 117° (47° C) here, which is staggeringly unheard of in my cloudy corner of Oregon. Of course as soon as it finally dropped into the high 90° I took a wonderful (but also hot: 111°) weekend camping trip to the desert.…
Road Trippers
Last year, right before the pandemic roared into our lives, we bought an RV. Well, we bought a third of an RV. My brother and his wife, my sister and her husband, bought a third of it too. Three couples, one RV. A timeshare on…
The Cubes
A couple months ago I asked around on various social media, looking for solutions to my yarn storage problem. Things had gotten so bad, every time I waded into my mighty stash, it triggered an avalanche. People offered a lot of good ideas (thank you!)…
