Some of my favorite things
Went a little Selfie Crazy this week, but just really happy to have spring semester over and summer officially beginning!
I don’t have my doctoral cap on, so this only qualifies as a very partial regalia photo, but enjoying a very snappy undergraduate graduation ceremony with one of my dear colleagues, Craig Hinnencamp. Graduation is such a happy time for professors, seeing the students with each other and their families. Earning degrees takes a lot of work and support!
Happily pinned in my reading chair by a very comfy Chester the Bester.
It’s been cool and rainy for the past week+, so I was eager to get into those hives and see what’s going on. The bees are very busy and a LOT calmer than when we moved them last month.
I’ve started in on my summer reading. When I finish a book I make a little tiny version (using foamboard and minaturized images from Amazon) and put it on my little mini library cart that I keep on my library shelf. #crafty #obsession
We’ve lost a few hens to predators this spring (pretty much every spring), so I’ll have to be stricter about keeping them in their fenced run. Plus the goats are there to stand guard. For some reason they LOVE laying right in front of the chicken area gate.
Lilacs are, truly, the very best. They bloom for such a short time. They do not last long in vases. But that smell! There is no other floral aroma like it. Spokane is “The Lilac City”, which is pretty cool. We have planted a few here and there, and they are coming along (if we can keep the deer from eating them in the winters.) I found a real estate listing for a 30 acre lilac farm raising over a hundred heritage varieties in upstate New York that had a haunted Civil War barracks house also included an on-property perfumerie where the ancient art of “enfleurage” (extracting the scent through setting individual little flower buds in fat to absorb the scent) was performed. Sadly, I could not convince anyone in the family to move!
My head groundskeeper trying to push through the garden path grass that was out of control after 10 days of misty rain.
It may not look like much, but those are potatoes, coming along nicely. We have had a bale of straw in the back of the truck for two weeks that we just have not gotten around to placing on this bed to hold in the moisture!
