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Notes from the Treehouse: September 2008
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Notes from the Treehouse. Saturday, September 27, 2008. It’s been a productive week for freelancing. A sizeable yearly project to which I’m committed has rolled around again, and I’ve been hacking away at it during the girls’ downtime - admittedly, a rare occurrence at 20 months. The site was supposedly grandfathered as industrial because it housed a cement plant as recently as 20 years ago, but the neighborhood has evolved in the decades since that plant closed. Glad to have contacts for all these respo...
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Notes from the Treehouse: April 2008
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Notes from the Treehouse. Tuesday, April 8, 2008. Decided to commune with blue today. Listening to Robert Plant and Allison Krauss - don't love the entire album, but it's growing on me. Feeling more visual than verbal. Saturday, April 5, 2008. No over-spilling ashtray keeps my keyboard chalked these days. My head doesn’t hurt this Saturday morning. Breakfast is staying put. I ate breakfast in the morning. After I slept. Is it possible to be creatively raw in a state of contentment? A Long Walk to Green.
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Notes from the Treehouse: You think this cup-o-noodles is still good?
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Notes from the Treehouse. Tuesday, May 12, 2009. You think this cup-o-noodles is still good? I brought home a bucket of praying mantises from work - they hatched," Chris tells me over dinner last night. "Once they hatch, they start eating each other, so right now it's like insect thunderdome in the car console.". About a month ago, we let loose a fleet of ladybugs in the gardens and trees. The mantises are our second wave of natural pest deterrence. After breakfast and coffee, the girls and I headed out ...
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Notes from the Treehouse
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Notes from the Treehouse. Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Chris and I are learning how to make cheese. We've started with soft cheeses - mozzarella, ricotta, panir - hoping to work our way up to the hard ones with wax shells, colorful aging patterns and healthy aromas. For supplies and recipes, go to New England Cheesemaking Supply Company. I keep meaning to pick up some white vinegar to make paneer. I've made yogurt cheese - that's pretty easy :) I actually have a recipe book by Stonyfield Farms that's...
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Notes from the Treehouse: April 2011
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Notes from the Treehouse. Thursday, April 14, 2011. This is something I wrote in September as the reality of losing our lives in North Carolina began to balloon. I walk the quiet hallway, surrounded by freshly painted off-white walls and bright white trim. Chuckle because Chris can’t help but be tickled every time we use that word: trim. Our life is transitory. No job or freshly-cut keys await us at the end of the caravan. – Just a maybe, a small confidence. This is my eulogy to Wilmington, to the life w...
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Notes from the Treehouse: June 2008
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Notes from the Treehouse. Thursday, June 26, 2008. This dragonfly pitstopped in my verbena this morning for at least 20 minutes. I had time to watch it while I thought Chris was going back in the house for the camera, then actually go back for the camera myself after he returned with a dog in each hand instead. So intense was this dragonfly, that neither squealing toddlers nor bounding canines could oust it from my flowerbed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Long Walk to Green. Shape of a Mother.
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Notes from the Treehouse: Country Mouse/City Mouse
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Notes from the Treehouse. Thursday, May 12, 2011. Here we are in the city. We have a small front and a back balcony, two bedrooms on the second floor of a small apartment building, a sidewalk with no end visible in either direction and a modest shared back courtyard that’s primarily for obese junk-fed city squirrels, urban birds who nest in third-floor eaves and dog-owners following behind their companions with disposal bags. Every city block is an explorative adventure – hidden bars, bodegas, flor...
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Notes from the Treehouse: May 2008
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Notes from the Treehouse. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. There’s nothing quite like wielding a shovel against one’s own front yard of a mild May evening. I love the gritty give of the coastal Carolina soil when I jump toes-first onto the top of the shovel head -it’s nothing like Manakin-Sabot red “shovel-goes-tink” clay. I adore the crunching yelp of the matted grass roots when I kick the blade like a guillotine through the topsoil. But first, two rotten stumps and three brambled manhattan euonymus must go.
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Notes from the Treehouse: August 2008
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Notes from the Treehouse. Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Mid-August, and my tomatoes and I have mutually acquiesced to the late summer sun. Burnt and ragged, the tomato foliage weakly screens a fashionably late bounty of fruit. My attention to pest and weed management, as well as to twice daily watering, wandered off sometime in late July. Luckily, it seems the bugs and drought gave up about the same time, so my tiny garden is thriving with minimal maintenance. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Long Walk to Green.
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Notes from the Treehouse: The last of it
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Notes from the Treehouse. Wednesday, November 12, 2008. The last of it. All of the decay goes to feed next year's beauty. The apartment might be empty, but we still have the keys. And we'll be back next April! November 12, 2008 at 10:13 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Long Walk to Green. Shape of a Mother. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. The last of it. To hope for the things we wish to want.
