Scratching each other the wrong way
I was sitting here typing up a blog post when the “dogs” started barking on my phone. (it’s my Ring driveway camera notification) Amazon deliveries don’t usually come at 8am … so it must be a deer … …
Just a stop along the way
Last Friday evening hubby and I were headed up to Worship Night at church. As we drove across the wide broad Sammamish Valley there were hundreds upon thousands of birds getting ready to head south! The tilled farm…
Lessons of the hunter … and the hunted!
I was walking loops around my front drive a few weeks ago when I kept hearing a strange noise coming from the apple trees. Lo and behold … it was a Northern Flicker woodpecker enjoying a nice juicy…
Is evolution true? Or is it not?
Our forestry class last week was over climate change. We learned that over the past 150 years the average temperature in our area has gone up … two degrees! Two!! We should be worried! We should be very…
Grocery store joys!
I headed to the grocery store yesterday to pick up some frosted sugar cookies for our forestry class Halloween party. Lo and behold … I wound up coming home with all these delightful snacks as well! (snacks, by…
Pretend I’m a tree!
Tonight is our forestry class … and since it happens to fall on Halloween, we’re having a class party! How exciting! Our forestry professor told us several weeks ago that he already had his costume picked out. I…
An example to follow?? Or an example to avoid!
I love it when I learn something new and mind-blowing at church. Our pastor opened the sermon with an account from the Old Testament book of 2 Kings, about a prophet who was somewhat of a national hero…
Is there a reason to have hope?
Behind our house is a deep ravine. Hubby and I have only ever been down into the ravine once. When our forestry professor came for our site visit a couple of weeks ago and we told him this,…
Are you weighed down?
The frost is finally bringing the leaves down. All summer I have been looking forward to using the Bigleaf maple leaves from the back to “mulch” the forest area in the front. But I have been so burdened…
Farewell garden. It’s been a good one. See you next year.
Our temperatures have dropped, and the frost has come. I woke up this morning to 31*. It’s supposed to be down to 29* tomorrow morning. Yesterday afternoon I was out tidying up the garden and getting it ready…