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Feel the Burn
Today is one of my very favorite days of the yard-care year: Bonfire Day!! We’ve saved our year’s worth of stumps and old wood and fallen limbs and prunings, and today they go UP in flames. YEAH! It’s...
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One long woodsy post
I’m not sure how it works at your house, but here at Contemporary Insanity, things tend to start out seeming all nice and normal, but somehow manage to quickly snowball into “Whoa! What just...
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Autumn Pumpkins
I love pumpkins a whole big lot. I love having them around all throughout the autumn, and I love carving silly faces on them for Halloween. They are one of my favorite things about autumn, and if...
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First frosts
Frost on a Nettle, picture by Vincent van Zeijst Yesterday and this morning have marked the first frosts of the year for us. It seems late in the year, but I’m not complaining! Windshields have...
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Sunshine Days
Over-wintered primroses that have bloomed in the last week. I took this picture during the last hour of golden sunshine this afternoon. Despite my bold claim that winter is not, in fact, the boss of...
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Stockings and Scoundrels
Well, I’m going to call it ‘close enough’ for the header and let ‘er roll. I love this new theme, WordPress has been an awesome blog-hosting tool! But on to business - Stockings: Back in April, I...
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Seasons & Cycles
The hydrangea are becoming rusty. Berries turn from green to red. Wood needs to be split for the winter ahead. Chilly mornings outdoors and fresh, hot vegetable-barley soup for lunch. Sunshine and...
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A New Year
Christmas decorations came down yesterday. The familiar pictures are back and hanging in their usual places on the walls. After I’d put away the birds and berries and baubles, the house looked clean...
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Spinning Flowers
I wanted to spin something different than I have before, so I pulled the most brightly-colored roving out of my stash, Dicentra Designs superwash merino top in a colorway called Aster. But despite the...
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Change of Seasons
Goodness, but it’s been a while! Such a busy summer with lots of weekend travels and working at the still-new-to-me job. But after a beautiful, long late summer Autumn is finally in the air and I have...
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