The previous owner of these 1.7 acres — a wonderful, creative, quixotic human — invested an extraordinary amount of time in projects around the place. Some of these I’ve written about elsewhere: the chicken coop that the foxes laid siege to (and easily conquered); chicken coop 2.0, newly electrified (also overrun, pillaged, chickens carried away …
Month: October 2018
You’re sitting on them
There’s a light snow falling in the ravine, with temperatures likely to drop further this evening, so we’re going inside today. When Jane and I lived in Vancouver, we answered a local ad about worm composting. Someone was interested in forming a group to promote it. It sounded like a good idea, but felt a …
Mountain Cottontail
Everyone should have their own cottontail. Not the tail per se — though that would make business meetings a lot more interesting— but the rabbit with the tail. Luckily we have one, the Mountain Cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttallii), one of nine cottontail species found in the U.S. and Canada. They occupy a range in the intermountain …
The Year Begins
Spiders own the workshop at Alban Elfed and I don’t pick fights with them, nor even dispossess them. Far more than it will ever be mine, it is theirs. If you walk down to the shop in early August there’s a disquieting feel about the place, as though you’ve interrupted someone, letting yourself into a …
Red Cedar Wright 