Monday, May 31, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Expecting Goat Kids Any Day Now...
Uno the goat has been in labor for over a day. She may be getting closer. We'll see!
Sorry for the short post, but I've been very busy of late.
TTFN!
Sorry for the short post, but I've been very busy of late.
TTFN!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Five things I must do on Saturday...
1.) Milk goats (that's a given!)
2.) Vacum
3.)Clean
4.) Sew
5.) Blog!
2.) Vacum
3.)Clean
4.) Sew
5.) Blog!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Alaska Weather
So, it was greenup on Tuesday. It snowed most of the day on Wednesday. And then on Thursday, I woke up to this.
Snow and fog. It was very lovely, though unexpected. However, snow in May is not uncommon. I've even seen it snow in June.
Evantually, the fog burned off and the sky became clear. It turned out to be a warm spring day!
TTFN!
Snow and fog. It was very lovely, though unexpected. However, snow in May is not uncommon. I've even seen it snow in June.
Evantually, the fog burned off and the sky became clear. It turned out to be a warm spring day!
TTFN!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Greenup!
It's greenup today! The birches have a faint yellow-green flush to them.
As well as working on the "Eyes of the World" bag, I'm also working on making a dress using a corset cover I found in an antique shop as a bodice. Since I couldn't decide what material to use for a skirt, I'm trying to make it fully detachable.
TTFN!
As well as working on the "Eyes of the World" bag, I'm also working on making a dress using a corset cover I found in an antique shop as a bodice. Since I couldn't decide what material to use for a skirt, I'm trying to make it fully detachable.
TTFN!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Breakup
This is an old vignette I wrote when I was fourteen for a high school project. It was the only project I managed to get an A+++ on in school. Not sure I deserved it, but it was nice.
I did edit it ever so slightly.. It's interesting to think about how I would write this now.
Where I live, we have five seasons. Spring, summer, fall, winter and breakup. Spring is normally lovely and beautiful, cool and clear, the sun's elusive rays warm. Summer here is glorious, but resembles a green desert. The end of summer is sort of a rainy season; which lasts from August 1st, till whenever school starts. Fall is magnificent. The yellow leaves glide to the ground into a sheet, and them comes with the coverlet of winter. Winter is gorgeous, but it is frigid, and sometimes very much so. And there is never enough sun. Here, it may drop to -50F, but this does not happen too often, only once or twice every couple of years.
Breakup is the season when the sun, the source of heat and light, ceases to hibernate. And the sun's gravitational pull pulls every one's refuse to the surface of the gray snow. Perhaps it is more of a magnetic attraction, but somehow, the sun manages to melt anywhere from one foot of snow to four, and fill those lucky people's homes with a couple feet of liquid ice crystals, dragging along any lovely nutrients it has with it. Breakup lasts about a month and a half or two.
Then it is spring.
I did edit it ever so slightly.. It's interesting to think about how I would write this now.
Where I live, we have five seasons. Spring, summer, fall, winter and breakup. Spring is normally lovely and beautiful, cool and clear, the sun's elusive rays warm. Summer here is glorious, but resembles a green desert. The end of summer is sort of a rainy season; which lasts from August 1st, till whenever school starts. Fall is magnificent. The yellow leaves glide to the ground into a sheet, and them comes with the coverlet of winter. Winter is gorgeous, but it is frigid, and sometimes very much so. And there is never enough sun. Here, it may drop to -50F, but this does not happen too often, only once or twice every couple of years.
Breakup is the season when the sun, the source of heat and light, ceases to hibernate. And the sun's gravitational pull pulls every one's refuse to the surface of the gray snow. Perhaps it is more of a magnetic attraction, but somehow, the sun manages to melt anywhere from one foot of snow to four, and fill those lucky people's homes with a couple feet of liquid ice crystals, dragging along any lovely nutrients it has with it. Breakup lasts about a month and a half or two.
Then it is spring.
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