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Here’s Hoping
Last night was another night of mosquito hell. I finally fell asleep because I was nauseated with exhaustion. Husband only fell asleep around dawn. As such, he didn’t make it to work today. He slept until noon while I started caulk-and-sprayfoam sealing the exterior of the windows. I am not a good caulker. Good thing…
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Fixit
Last time, I mentioned my Kick Spindle. I don’t know how old a technology they are, but I first heard about them a little over two years ago. They are a very simple piece of machinery — a solid base, a central shaft and whorl, and the lower ‘kick’ whorl, supported at a 45° angle.…
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Learning is work
We homeschool, I think I’ve mentioned that. There are days where that goes smoothly, and days where it absolutely does not. Some days, they are eager to get to work and zip through their pages, and some days they pay attention to everything BUT the page, do very little work, and what they do, they…
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Siege
Yeah, so, large amounts of rain = large amounts of mosquitos. We sprayfoamed every gap and crack we could see, and in the evening, it was much better. Then 4am came, and a screaming swarm found its way inside somehow. I had a full dozen on my head at one time. It was extremely demoralizing.…
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Always Something
We were under a rainfall warning today. 40-70mm of rain in a 24 hour period. I would guess we got somewhere in the middle of that range. The puddles are ankle-deep at the moment. Rain that hard, in a steel building, is rather loud. I like the sound of rain, though, so it was okay.…
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It’s the Little Things that Wreck You…
Sprayfoam. Great when it works, but invariably the nozzle is a cheap and flimsy thing. Great way to involuntarily change your skin colour. In related news, there are FAR fewer gaps for mosquitos to enter through today.
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The Sixth Circle of Hell is Full of Mosquitos
It is 5:30am. I have had approximately five minutes of sleep. Every time we think we have found and filled all the gaps, cracks, and ingress points, along comes a night like this past night and shows us how wrong we were. We have been hunting mosquitos more or less nonstop since 9:00 last night.…
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Herbs to Heal
One of my many goals in this endeavor is to grow a robust supply of plants that heal the body, mind and emotions. In the world that we live in now, most people are only familiar with pharmaceutical medications. You have an ailment, you go to a medical doctor, the medical doctor asks a couple…
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What’s the Madder?
I spent some time yesterday researching the seedling appearance of the herbs I planted back in the spring, to try to get some semblance of an idea of what I have. Turns out, a few of the plants I was babying were weeds from the bagged soil. But as far as the actual herbs go,…
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Sprouts
Gardening can be an emotional roller coaster. It is also an act of faith. You plant the seeds, and water them and put them in sunlight, but you ultimately have no control over what grows. So the time between the planting and the sprouting is emotionally fraught. Has there been enough rain? Has there been…
Off The Beaten Path 