Costa Rica Diaries 2021

Costa Rica Diaries 2021

This is it. The trip we’ve been waiting for! (This week needs to go by faster.) The kids are finally old enough to go (and have had both their Covid vaccines) and I’ve been bubbling with excitement! It’s not just for a (much needed) vacation 

Bed and Breakfast Diaries Part 5: Before and After 1st Floor Rear

Bed and Breakfast Diaries Part 5: Before and After 1st Floor Rear

Monday – April 26th, 2021: Things didn’t exactly turn out the way I thought, since I wasn’t able to really take a good look at this unit until today. Unfortunately several things made it so that I can’t actually DIY this, mainly, the windows are 

Bed and Breakfast Diaries Part 4: Garden Plan

Bed and Breakfast Diaries Part 4: Garden Plan

The garden portion of my plan will actually be done in October, when I can get clearance fruit tree as from my local plant nurseries. First thing is that the ground needs to be turned over and then the holes have to be dug. I 

Lessons From My Garden

Lessons From My Garden

As my garden wakes up this spring, I thought about how it will be the last season I’ll be able to enjoy it (hello ramps, good morning asparagus!) Having fed my family for years from painstakingly building it from a sandy, sterile lawn using purely 

Daily Life 1: Quail Chronicles

Daily Life 1: Quail Chronicles

After a harrowing incubation and hatching period, eleven cute, fluffy little celadon quail are now growing happily in a brooder in my mud room. My hognose snake, the dashing Mrs. Pigworm who was the original inhabitant of the makeshift brooder, is now relegated to a