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Nantucket Tie Chic: May 2012
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012. It grows wild all over the place. As all mints are invasive, they have their own mini-garden. Which, in a mere month, is already trying to escape. We also planted spearmint near our. Outside faucets, to use the drips efficiently. I harvested some and got:. A whole countertop full! Five bunches were hung to dry,. Out of the sun, for tea. Becky blended two cups in the Vitamix,. Strained it out,. Added half a cup of organic sugar and a spritz of lemon,. Then half froze it. Links to ...
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Nantucket Tie Chic: July 2011
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Sunday, July 31, 2011. 186: Summer Supper-Ethiopian style. First you get some Teff seed from Annye's Wholefoods,. Add water, soak two days and make flatbread(injera). Then you get some veggies from the garden:. Lots Boil some eggs. Chop, chop,chop and:. Links to this post. Saturday, July 30, 2011. 185: Life Cycle of the Squash Bug. It's been three weeks since I posted on these critters. I now have an entire life-cycle to show you:. You can find these mating pairs under bottom leaves. Links to this post.
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Nantucket Tie Chic: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011. No, it's not because all those Figawi sailors were here. It's not the cash, it's the Spring! Walking down Union Street in town:. The white picket fence really shows off the ivy. Why bother with grass? I love Stone Alley. It's so Secret Gardenish. Fussing with grass,. See that s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t mowing line? Even the most perfect yard can have a dog's chew toy on the table. Links to this post. Monday, May 30, 2011. On Memorial Day Nantucket has a teeny tiny parade. The bugle sounds Taps.
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Nantucket Tie Chic: March 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. March 31st. Perfect timing for a fundraiser. You thought they only happened in the summer didn't you? Nope, Nantucketers do fundraisers year-round. This one was for Yvrose Ismael and her family. Yvrose is a Haitian lady married to a preacher who has taken in 16 kids, none of them born to her but all of them her family. Here they are:. Happy, happy chickens.and happy Haitian kids. Links to this post. This is at Squam Swamp. Links to this post. Labels: gardens by the sea. The rain...
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Nantucket Tie Chic: October 2011
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Monday, October 31, 2011. 264: Sermon Haiku 18: Ephesians 6. What's so good about evil? Devil seeking to destroy. Be prepared to fight. Bright breastplate of righteousness. Repels the devil's darts. Without their truth belt. What kind of fighter. Runs into battle barefoot? Gospel of peace shoes. Good vs. Evil. One little word shall fell him'. Fight darkness with light. Links to this post. Saturday, October 29, 2011. Nearly half of Nantucket is under some sort of conservation. In the maples of Squam Swamp.
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Nantucket Tie Chic: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011. 214: Sermon Haiku 12: John 11. This week's haiku is for Will Brown,. A local kid, only 7 years old who drowned. Last Monday at Steps Beach. We long for the day. When there will be no more death. Lazarus is dead.'. Jesus said,'I will wake him.'. But you said he's dead! Lord, if only you'd been here,. He'd still be alive. Headed to the tomb. Jesus wept for their sorrow. He is Lord of life. Death can't hold out against Him. Roll away the stone'. Lazarus, come out! Links to this post.
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Nantucket Tie Chic: #630: Winter Wonderland
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Sunday, February 1, 2015. Sometimes island life can be less than idyllic,. Especially in the winter. When there are no boats, or planes, or electricity. More so for the birds, whose food is covered with snow. So, we put out some more. All morning we watched them come and go. And full plumage, puffed against the cold. We were out in full color too,. Feeding the chickens and pouring boiling water. On their frozen water supply. No bike rides today. Or car rides either. My Geo is a marshmallow.
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Nantucket Tie Chic: June 2011
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Thursday, June 30, 2011. 155: Three Sisters Garden. I'm trying to grow a Three Sisters Garden. This year. Planting codfish racks under the corn hills caused a slight problem. One of the chickens escaped and dug up all the hills to get at the fly larvae. Phooey:. Two of the seven stalks (out of 52! That survived Sadie's scratching. So I replanted, this time under coffee sacks,. Can you see the stalk peeking through next to the 'A'? Here it is, closer:. Coffee sacks from Mexico and Ethiopia. Links to this ...
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Nantucket Tie Chic: March 2012
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Thursday, March 29, 2012. Not easily noticed,. But if you stop,. In the wrack zone. Life's wrack line is similar:. In the world you have tribulation,. But take courage,. I have overcome the world.'. Even tossed about,. The detritus of the wrack line. Links to this post. Tuesday, March 27, 2012. In just two weeks we'll be greeting the Easter sunrise,. With joyful, joyful songs. New beginnings are often small and hidden:. You have to, as my mom used to say,. Keep your eyes peeled.'. And He's coming again.
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Nantucket Tie Chic: April 2011
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Saturday, April 30, 2011. One of my kids has written out the projects somebody around here needs to get on top of:. Obviously an ambitious child. I'm good with picnics and the beach. But I did manage to get the asparagus planted:. Dig a big hole in a corner where it'll never have to be moved, fill the hole with compost, mound up the middle and lay the first year roots around it like a spider:. Carefully roped of so no-one plants something else there. Three years of care. Then we'll relish that first stalk.
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