Beautiful ride home through a winter wonderland. #maine

They’re over proofed!!!! In my best Paul Hollywood voice. My poor lussebullar. Ah, well. They taste REALLY good. Had a work call interrupt me for far too long. Oops. There’s more dough in the fridge and I’ll try for some prettier ones tomorrow.

Made some sufganiyot today! Not the prettiest things in the world but tasty! I made the jam inside! They look a disaster but it won’t stop me from eating the whole plate!

7 months ago I ordered a set of measuring cups from Sweden, the only set I could find with the VERY specific measurements they use. They got stuck in customs for months. It was a whole thing. I had to contact the company I bought them from, the company that produced them, and file SO MUCH PAPERWORK.

This person took this when they called the race

Nice to wake up and realize I live in a sane state. I was a little worried there for a bit. But all the loud voices online, were just that…noise and trolls. Thank you, Maine. #maine

Weekend at the Common Ground Fair in Maine. Volunteered yesterday and have a shift for tomorrow. Today was my free day so I wandered around, went to a chicken first aid talk, and angora rabbit grooming demo, helped with a community felting project, and went to a solar cooking demo. Always fun.

This just came in the mail mail! By @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @dartbeef.bsky.social shared a comment that he made announcing it’s publication, and I love to support writers and artists of all types! The cover immediately captured my attention, and I can’t wait to get started!

2025 garlic harvest. This should get us through the fall and part of the winter! Prepping a new garlic bed for next year. #garlic #gardens #maine #gardensky 🌱

Happy, happy pollinators in the garden today. Hummingbird Clearwings, Bumblebees, lots of butterflies I didn’t get pictures of! #garden #maine 🌱

Hey Gardening Blue Sky! Does anyone have tips on growing poppies? I can never get them to grow. My grandmother had lovely ones, which my uncle has the later generations of in his garden. But mine never grow. What am I doing wrong? #gardening #gardens #maine 🌱

Hey Maine! Enjoying this break in the heat!? My new air conditioner was delivered today. So, you’re welcome. 😂 It will be nice to have one newer than 15 years old if it gets hot again! #maine

Had my first client facing call in three years at the new (old) job and it felt like coming home! My position is a little bit different now, but still exciting and fun, and I’m so happy to be getting back into the swing of things!!! It’s so nice to wake up excited to go to work!

Perfect day.

Little buddy on a dock plant in my asparagus bed. Hi, lil guy!

Just a cute flyer I saw for a tattoo studio in Great Barrington.

At the final reunion for Simon’s Rock. Have gone through quite a few emotions and reflections this past weekend. It was nice to see so many familiar faces, and strengthen some long held friendships. Had a lot of nice walks and reflecting on the last 35 or so years. Some nice unexpected surprises.

Planted 7 more pepper plants, 5 more tomato plants, a packet of dill seeds, a packet of basil seeds, a motherwort plant, and a boneset plant on my lunch break today. Many more seeds to plant! Chipping away at things. Just in time for yet another rainy weekend! #maine #garden 🌱

Spent my lunch break planting so many seeds. Another rainy weekend coming, so getting them in while the sun shines! Squash, beans, lupini, fava beans, luffa, melons, and a bunch of dye and tea herbs. Now sorting through to see what to plant when the rain stops! 🌱 #gardening

Met someone online who was looking for dandelions to forage. I invited her over to help herself! She left with all the flowers she could pick for infusing into oil and making into tea, fresh nettles for tea and comfrey for medicine, a borage plant, a comfrey plant, and a lemon balm plant. 🌱 #maine

Garlic mustard and ramp pesto for dinner tonight. A friend of mine found some garlic mustard on her property, and I happily volunteered to eradicate it for her. Free dinner! I also walked away with a bunch of new other plants that she shared, violets and hostas, borage and myrtle. #foraging #maine

The unappealing start to dandelion wine.❤️

Comfrey is popping up! Thrives on neglect!

Sorry about my filthy hands! I’ve been planting ginseng. Planted two mulberry trees today too! My hazelnuts are leafing out, as are my blueberries. And look at my baby ramp patch! :) #garden #maine 🌱

Had to come to Boston for a work event in the morning. The view from my hotel room is quite nice, and I got a quick break from set up earlier to walk around Copley Square and enjoy the sunshine a bit.

Good night to be a frog in Maine! And to be a human who loves frogs and newts! Did some data recording for Maine Big Night. In 1/2 hour we saw (and helped cross the road) 24 peppers 4 live red efts 1 dead red eft 1 great tree frog 1 pickerel frog And heard a barred owl!

Made a yummy foraged food pie thing today for dinner. Yay for free food and spring foraging! Recipe if anyone cares: Phyllo dough, 1/2 a pack Foraged greens Garlic Light life veggie sausage 1/2 roll Olive oil Onions Whatever spices you like Salt/pepper …continued below

Bloodroot is blooming, daffodils have opened up, lilac is budding! Ahhhh…spring! #maine #garden 🌱🌼

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My little Maine garden, or pieces of it. Buds on one of my linden trees, bloodroot starting to blossom, lady’s mantle doing pretty stuff, and my little patch of ramps is starting to come up!!!

Lung cancer screening was clear, and no bad stuff in my lungs from multiple bouts of COVID pneumonia. Whew. Everything else looks good too, at least what the CT scan saw.

Lemon balm, rhubarb, and nettles coming up in my garden. Peas planted. Prepping the veggie garden more this weekend. Spring is springing slowly but surely. 🌱🌱🌱 Early spring in Maine. Organized my seeds yesterday. I’ve decided to take all the old/questionable ones and make a chaos garden out back!

A little cross stitch I made for my niece. First one I’ve ever done. Keeps my mind busy while my shoulder heals. Can’t do much else of importance. Slow and painful healing from this surgery. Spring is finally coming and the ice is gone, so I can go outside without being worried about falling.

One of my friends is making t shirts to raise some much needed funds. Follow her for more creations!

Have been quiet since the great furnace disaster of 2025. Had shoulder surgery a few weeks ago and am just getting back to normal. It will be healed up by gardening time, I hope. I did manage to start some American Ginseng one handed which is sprouting nicely!

Now entering one full week with no furnace, no timeline of replacement and a -7°F day today. I’m beyond exhausted. All my houseplants are frozen, the cats’ water was frozen in the kitchen this morning, the pipes almost froze. I’m so tired. If I’d know it would take this long, I would have found…

My furnace has been broken since Sunday. It is 10° outside today and so cold inside I can see my breath. Hard to get anything done. :( Hard to focus on anything. I am having surgery next week and don’t want to have to recuperate in a house this cold. 🥶

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My niece is doing an exchange trip to Japan and has a go fund me. Sharing for exposure!!!! She’s a great kid and I want to support her. gofund.me/e3a55f48

Welp. Hit that inevitable point in Mystery Hunt weekend where I’m no good for anything. Ah well. Solving remotely this year so at least I can clean in my free time.

I have to repost this because there’s so much going on here.

Lovely sunset today. Brutal cold and quite windy. But worth stepping out and catching a picture!

Sleep well, President Carter. You are the first president I remember from my childhood. You were a good man. Your memory is a blessing.

Apparently gearing up for No Spend January, where the only thing I spend money on is groceries and pet supplies. I had a $15 gift card to a bookstore and couldn’t decide on anything. I’ll save it for next month so I can combine it with the gift card I’ll get in January!

First holiday bake of the year. Gingerbread with 4 types of ginger (fresh, stem, crystallized, and powdered spice)with yummy chunks of fresh pear, and whipped cream.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, FIVE GOLD RINGS, four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate the birds. Sold the rings. Bought more birds with the money. Ate them too.

Wendat longhouse recreation at the Musée Huron-Wendat in Wendake, Quebec. Beautiful place!

Gorgeous vegan treat from Hansel & Gretel, an amazing patisserie with vegan treats in Quebec City. It was so good!

Fruitcake is made and brushed with brandy and wrapped up. I don’t care for it but my mom loved it. So I make it every year. Always feels too early for holiday baking but I’m actually like two weeks late making it. She will love it though.

My cats are obsessed with the idea of turning me into a morning person. I am not a morning person. They, however, think 5am is an absolutely perfect time for me to wake up. It is not. Now I’m grumpy.