6-13 March … still winter, but we sprang forward so the days feel longer.
6 March
view from kitchen sink window (very dirty) into sunroom and beyond, 10:20 a.m., with sprouting seeds on counter“Old Masters” version of Bumble in upholstered chair, mid-morning (spouse took photo)
< I completely cleaned the cat’s litter box but forgot to document it. Apologies. >
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7 March
making my breakfast, sprouted seeds and beans sautéed with jasmine rice and soy sauce, 11:05 a.m.desktop, preparing to browse and write, 11:08 a.m.heated birdbath and rhodos, from family room window, 11:27 a.m.making tea, one of five or six cups each day, 12:53read (and finished) Peter Robinson’s _Careless Love_, 25th in the Banks/Cabot series, 1:31 p.m.turkey trio eating birdseed, 1:50 p.m.worked out every day but one, to Body Electric dvds, 2:45 p.m.reading Beyond the War on Invasive Species book for permaculture group, with fire and cat, 8:15 p.m.Bumble playing with connected straws, 8:30 p.m.
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8 March
visit to local library, 12:34 p.m.walk home from library and beyond, 1:04 p.m.
< I hosted weekly salon from 3-5 p.m. but no pics. >
Bumble curled up in my office chair, 10:40 p.m.
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9 March: group snowshoe hike in Grantham, NH
some of the large snowshoeing groupbeech leaves and snowanimal tracks and plant shadows in snowopen wetlandboulder, hemlocks, sun, snowarched tree and shadow like an eyewhite and blue: birch trees and skyparallel snowshoe trackspin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica) tree bark
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10 March: < No photos taken, of anything. Still, I lived. >
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11 March
Bumble semi-snoozing, 5:30 p.m.prepping root veggies to roast for next day’s permaculture group meeting, 9:55 p.m.
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12 March
< Forgot to take photos of my permaculture group meeting from 10:30 a.m. -1 p.m. >
discussed this book (and ate great food) with permaculture group, 10:30-1 p.m.First 60F day in the sunroom this year! The cat and I celebrated by hanging out there, 4:31 p.m.About to play ping pong with spouse (and cat) for a half-hour or so, 8 p.m.
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March 13
cleaned a bathroom shower, 3:10 p.m.
Snowshoed from 4:30 – 6 p.m. at a nearby nature preserve. Saw a mess of hemlock branches under a tree, so I started looking up and after about 2 minutes, I found the varmint. Of course, I forgot my camera and had only my phone, which is not up to the task of a zoomed shot from a distance.
clues to porcupine above: many small hemlock branchesin situ: way up in the hemlock, balanced on a skinny branch, 5:13 p.m.blurry porcupine a million miles up a hemlock tree, 5:18 p.m.mullein seedheads, 5:04 p.m.on snowshoes on Bumble Island, 5:31 p.m.yellow birch tree bark with veins, moss/lichen, 4:47 p.m.
Packed for a short trip to Boston:
knapsack almost packed for Boston trip, 8:19 p.m. (feat. Laa Laa)
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“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you …. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.” ~ Ruth Stout
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 9:21 PM A Moveable Garden wrote:
> mmwm posted: “6-13 March … still winter, but we sprang forward so the > days feel longer. 6 March forgot to document it. Apologies. > * 7 March * 8 March salon fro” >
Love these pictures. Bumble Island??
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 9:21 PM A Moveable Garden wrote:
> mmwm posted: “6-13 March … still winter, but we sprang forward so the > days feel longer. 6 March forgot to document it. Apologies. > * 7 March * 8 March salon fro” >
I want a week like that!
Hemlock, beech, birch, pin cherry and what I believe to be a spruce! All such unfamiliar specie.
And all so common here.