I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a while, but I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea. I’m still not sure, but since I have a tendency to sometimes overshare, I’m going for it. I’ll be pulling back the curtain a little bit on my business Red Onion Woodworks. If you only [...]
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The weather this past weekend was pretty incredible. Western Oregon always gets a few early spring days that feel more like summer when every last sun-starved person makes an effort to get outside to bask in the glory. Saturday and Sunday were perfect and very much appreciated. I haven’t left the homestead since we got [...]
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Sometimes I fantasize about what it would be like to live in a walking society, whether that be a modern-day city or an olden-day rural community. I love walking so much, and I always wish I had more utilitarian reasons to travel on foot aside from the exercise and fresh air. Something I don’t love? [...]
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This week has been so full. Full of doing taxes and thinking about money. (Do I make enough? Do I want to make more? Can I make more?) Full of barbecue baking successes and failures. (Good muffins, bad bagels.) Full of running around doing errands I’ve put off for way too long (My driver’s license [...]
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In the spring of 2007 when I was eight months married and four months pregnant (with Levi), I visited New York City for the first time. My brother and now sister in law were living in Harlem, finishing their first year of teaching in New York public schools after completing master’s degrees at Columbia Teacher’s [...]
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My friend Lisa (who makes an appearance in this post) gave me this huge willow basket for my birthday last week. I really didn’t expect her to get (let alone make) me anything at all, so I was totally surprised when she walked up with this beautiful creation. Lisa cut the willow at a friend’s [...]
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honeybees on meadowfoam Happy birthday, Oregon! I do love you so. (I also really love food and flowers.) strawberry harvest Oregon Coast canning tomatoes hydrangeas in Yachats Lumos vineyard Mosaic Farms Gathering Together Farm sea anemones Jersey dairy cow summer roses endangered Fender’s blue butterfly heirloom tomatoes columbine in a Portland front yard bigleaf maple [...]
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So I turned 30 on Sunday. Like last year, I’d been looking forward to this milestone. Though I have my fair share of regrets about things I should or shouldn’t have done in my past, I’m pretty confident that I’m on the right path (or at least a good one) now. I feel completely satisfied [...]
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Hoar is such an unpleasant word for such a beautiful thing. The weather finally broke today, and we got rain instead of the freezing fog that’s been hanging around for over a week. I think I’d prefer sunshine or real snow, but rain will have to be good enough. I don’t usually do link roundups [...]
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We celebrated my grandma’s 85th birthday (as well as my aunt’s 63rd, my sister in law’s 32nd, and my baby niece‘s 1st, which all passed within the last seven days) this weekend with a small family gathering in a rental house in Sunriver, Oregon. My grandma (who I wrote about a bit in this post) [...]
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