Author: Calamity Jane
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A New Morning
Wow. I’m in love. Yesterday, after a big storm, what they call here a “cold” front blew in. The clouds moved around all day with the chilly wind, and this morning when I opened my little eyeballs, through our sliver of window I saw blue sky, and the one leafy branch I always wake up…
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Revolutionizing Christmas
***This is a post I wrote last Christmas, for my old blog Subsist/Resist. I don’t want to be a Bah-Humbug. At heart, I love Christmas. I grew up in a hippie family, where Christmas was about sparkly lights, magic, and doing special secret things for people you loved. We cut a real tree (spruce make…
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Finally, A Laundry Line!
And just in time for the rain too! No, actually, it’s been raining all along. It rains all the time here, at least in the months since we arrived. Probably one out of every two days. Short rains, but hard. The kind that soak you to the bone in 5 seconds flat. It’s an infuriating…
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I Want to Ride My Bicycle!
Well, it’s not the bike of my dreams. I wanted a punk rebuild. But I looked for weeks and all I could find was overpriced old crap bikes with the chain not even greased up (seriously, I drove halfway across town to look at one for $160 that was just an old piece of junk,…
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It’s What’s Fer Dinner
I made one of our favorite quick meals the other night– red lentil soup. It made me think about quick, wholesome, one-pot meals. Not the glamorous kind they always put in magazines, but the kind us mamas make all the time in the real world. I saw on the great blog Down to Earth a…
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