Photographer, Crone, witch, artist, cook, fat activist, writer, and lady of leisure with a garden. — I am a retired university library employee who lives in the wilds of North Idaho with my hubby and 2 spoiled rotten kitties. I am a fantastic cook who enjoys good movies, the great outdoors, and creating. I have been a fat/size activist for a number of years now, ever…

It’s Spring and the little snot wants out. — Twice this last week we’ve gotten up to find that Napoleon was sitting outside the front window waiting for us to get up. Which was a great surprise since he had been inside when we went to bed. He’s not allowed at night, we have a pair of Great Horn…

After three years of trying, I finally have Showy Milkweed — Ok, I actually have managed to get some seeds to germinate and I am now waiting for the seedlings to grow enough to plant them out in my new garden bed. I have been working on a bee/butterfly garden for a few years now. Since retiring I have redoubled my…

Dispatches from the Little Homestead in a Mobile Home Park — Retirement life continues here at the Little Homestead in a Mobile Home Park. It is so nice to be able to spend as much time as I like gardening. I am looking forward to this year’s gardening and expanding on what I grow. The weather has warmed up, though we…

I’m not kidding, I now live in a bog! — We had a long winter, lots of snow that didn’t all go away until almost March. So I figured my yard would be a little squishy for a while. So imagine having one’s lawn and back garden start to resemble a bog. …

And I am feeling so much better — I hadn’t planned on not writing for so long, but it seems that one’s depression medication can stop working after a number of years. Add in a long winter, a tendency to suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and not going anywhere can really add up. I pretty much lost…

Under 3 feet of snow — Okay, not quite three feet from fallen snow. It builds up when it is piled from shoveling parking spaces and walkways. But we do have a bit.

All quiet at our house — Hubby isn’t big on Christmas. Didn’t help his birthday is close to the holiday and growing up he got the combined present, while his sibs were able to have their birthday and Christmas separate. That is a lousy thing to do to a kid. …