Birds Hate Us

 Spring is getting closer. The Chic-a-dees are eating all the suet The first snowdrops. The catkins are leaking yellow pollen...

  We try to get to the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary at least once a season although we don’t always ...

Greengage plumbs on the dryer rack. Peaches from the interior of BC. The Excaliber dryer with peaches. Jars are ready ...

All sorts of tiny frogs emerging Late corn is  almost ready. The garden is getting that late fall overgrown look.

The mystery surrounding dozens of paralyzed birds that were discovered in B.C.'s northeast has deepened after veterinarians ruled out W...

It was a good year for strawberries this year. There was lots of rain at the start of the season and plenty of sun just before ...

Leveling the ground for the new beds. Adding agricultural liner to slow down weeds. New posts. Upgrading an old b...

Planting peas, radishes and potatoes in the greenhouse. Warba potato. We try to start spring a little early, by planting potatoes...

The first snowdrops. Pruning the fruit trees in February. It is an act of faith that one day, the sky will clear, and there will be su...

I was invited to speak on a panel about text based interventions in the public. Please see my website for examples of this work. leannej.c...

--> What do you do with twenty pounds of herring? Well, you have to clean them first! We thought it would be less complicat...

I have been finessing an old Kenmore sewing machine. It is a grand old machine, but I realized that it needed some wo...

The cranberries have been harvested,  and it is a bumper year. This means fall is over and the November rains and winds are here. It wa...

The last of the bounty Halloween Prep The treeline  Cranberry harvest Mouser Opportunist