I’ve been working on adapting some of the classes I teach locally to an e-course format.  I’m not quite ready to start offering these just yet as I’d like to do a test run.  I’d like to get the kinks out and just better understand how I would work directly with students through an e-course.  To do [...]

I’ve spent some serious time with my sewing machine over the last few days and it has been wonderful.  I ended up creating a bunch of bags that I intend to use as barter items.  The bags also gave me a great way to bust my fabric stash.  If you happen to be interested in [...]

“The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied.  They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.” ~ Vita Sackville-West Well, the first annual seed swap was a success!  The weather wasn’t great so we had to move inside, the attendance was [...]

There are some exciting things happening around Two Frog Home these days.  I’m looking forward to hosting  my first ever plant & seed swap tomorrow.  The weather forecast predicts showers and overcast skies, but I’m hoping for a good turnout anyway.  I’m super excited to meet and talk with other local gardeners.  If you’re local, I’ll hope you’ll stop by [...]

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality. – Mahatma [...]

I’m a bit pressed for time today as I prepare for a presentation tonight put on by our local library.  I’ll be part of a panel of other truly amazing folks talking about gardening, beekeeping, and food preservation.  I’m prepared for the talk (and super excited), but didn’t gather my samples, canners, and other materials [...]

It’s been a whirlwind of a week.  So many exciting things happening that have kept me going during the moments of exhaustion and dental pain. Exciting things like watching the running maple sap filling the collection bottles: Exciting things like letters from my sister, a long-time pen-pal, and blogger friends. And exciting things like a [...]

I have a desk, but sometimes I need to spread out more than the desk allows.  On these occasions I sit at the kitchen table allowing myself a bit more room for papers and hopefully creativity.  This weekend, I did just that for a long while, working at the kitchen table.  The kitchen table also [...]

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.” – Victor Hugo In general, I believe that we should celebrate love everyday, not just on Valentine’s day.  I hate the media attention to expressing love, mostly through the act of buying trinkets, [...]

I have been getting a multitude of spam e-mails from a certain seed company.  I imagine I’m not the only blogger.  They want me to endorse their products without trying them, I won’t be doing that.  I’ve asked them to remove me from their list so many times.  I’m so irritated with this company and as much [...]