The last six months have been a bit busy around here, without much actual gardening happening. At the moment I am on uni study week (part of the busy - I started studying again), and impatiently checking my garden to see if any of the seeds we have planted recently have sprouted. I'm not having …
What I actually did for the advent calendar
I ended up buying a wooden kit advent calendar, and decorated it with my little assistant. He was very patient during the process although he did wander off before we were done. There are little drawers to fill things with. The bigger ones are big enough for a small car, but the highlight for him …
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Advent calendars
Browsing back tonight to find a book review that I wrote (Last Child in the Woods) I also stumbled upon another post that was good timing for this part of the year - Cute ideas for Advent calendars. I wrote this two years ago, looking forward to a time when my little person would be able …
Sewing and plodding along
Hello! That was an unexpected break. It turns out that babies who don't like to sleep don't leave a lot of mental energy for anything non-essential. Also a bush turkey destroyed my garden. Yes! All my carefully planted seeds and nurtured plants were gone in an afternoon because a bush turkey decided that my garden …
Purple bean picking
This is the result of our seed planting a few months ago - to fill in an afternoon, I pulled out all the out of date seeds and showed the toddler how to plant them. Then we waited. And waited. And eventually some plants sprouted. Then I waited some more to find out what they …
Mumma, Did You Know? 