Wednesday Vignette: This Week So Far, Randomly

6-13 March … still winter, but we sprang forward so the days feel longer.

6 March

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view from kitchen sink window (very dirty) into sunroom and beyond, 10:20 a.m., with sprouting seeds on counter
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“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

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making my breakfast, sprouted seeds and beans sautéed with jasmine rice and soy sauce, 11:05 a.m.
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desktop, preparing to browse and write, 11:08 a.m.
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heated birdbath and rhodos, from family room window, 11:27 a.m.
steepingteaBubbamugteapotkitchen7March2019
making tea, one of five or six cups each day, 12:53
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read (and finished) Peter Robinson’s _Careless Love_, 25th in the Banks/Cabot series, 1:31 p.m.
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turkey trio eating birdseed, 1:50 p.m.
BodyElectricworkoutTV245pm7March2019
worked out every day but one, to Body Electric dvds, 2:45 p.m.
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reading Beyond the War on Invasive Species book for permaculture group, with fire and cat, 8:15 p.m.
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Bumble playing with connected straws, 8:30 p.m.

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8 March

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visit to local library, 12:34 p.m.
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walk home from library and beyond, 1:04 p.m.

< I hosted weekly salon from 3-5 p.m. but no pics. >

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Bumble curled up in my office chair, 10:40 p.m.

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9 March: group snowshoe hike in Grantham, NH 

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some of the large snowshoeing group
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beech leaves and snow
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animal tracks and plant shadows in snow
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open wetland
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boulder, hemlocks, sun, snow
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arched tree and shadow like an eye
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white and blue: birch trees and sky
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parallel snowshoe tracks
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pin 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

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Bumble semi-snoozing, 5:30 p.m.
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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. >

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discussed this book (and ate great food) with permaculture group, 10:30-1 p.m.
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First 60F day in the sunroom this year! The cat and I celebrated by hanging out there, 4:31 p.m.
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About to play ping pong with spouse (and cat) for a half-hour or so, 8 p.m.

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March 13

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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.

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clues to porcupine above: many small hemlock branches
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in situ: way up in the hemlock, balanced on a skinny branch, 5:13 p.m.
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blurry porcupine a million miles up a hemlock tree, 5:18 p.m.
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mullein seedheads, 5:04 p.m.
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on snowshoes on Bumble Island, 5:31 p.m.
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yellow birch tree bark with veins, moss/lichen, 4:47 p.m.

Packed for a short trip to Boston:

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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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4 comments

  1. 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” >

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