Essential Knowledge

back to eden

Hope you can watch this. Don’t worry, the perspective works. I have learned more about gardening…here…in a few minutes. I’m still watching, it’s long. (Later) You know how dangerous I am with trimmers… … But I watched a few videos about trimming stone fruit trees and it recommends trimming in summer and winter. This is […]

New Version Joy Set Up

San Juan del Sur

What more could I ask for? What I am is more than I could dream up! Just look at myself. Take a look around. None of it I can completely understand. But all this is what I am. All this is what it is. A beautiful living being. A beautiful planet full of other beautiful […]

Rain

Feeling Cloudy

I’ve been feeling cloudy today Slow moving, thick Gathering up rain ‘Just let it fall’, they say It gets really heavy After awhile Holding on to caring Or, just going crazy Isn’t this just like the weather Who can know it’s course It does as it pleases She can’t have a tether I say let […]

Cut that Rug

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I decided to make a rag rug out of old T-shirts, sewn on a base of a large towel from Steve’s father’s estate. I thought it might be a little boring if I just sewed them straight across the short side, so I drew this curved design on it with a marker. Here I have […]

More Ice Please

Back in March, I tried ice dyeing for the first time. It turned out great, so I finally got around to doing some more. This time, I had four different batches of dye. I started with two off-white shirts and used a reddish mix of dyes. I started it around 10:30pm and rinsed it the […]

Down and Up

Steve’s been busy on the outside of the house. At the end of April he had the two painter guys take down the addition from the back of the house. They opted to take the walls off before the roof, and then had to decide where to make the roof fall down. It landed partly […]

Virtual Quilting

My sister-in-law Laura showed me the quilt pattern called “One Block Wonder”, and the one she was making out of an animal print fabric was really special. It’s “One Block” because you cut the fabric into a single size of block – an equilateral triangle. The “Wonder” part comes from how you hardly recognize the […]