Landrace Gardening: Egyptian Walking Onions

Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. The current batch features landrace gardening.


Egyptian Walking Onions

I have started harvesting my first crop for the season: Egyptian Walking Onions. They grow under the snow during the winter and are ready for harvest about 3 weeks after our winter snow cover melts. My father calls them forever onions because they continue to produce food for my family until covered with snow in the fall. The strain I am growing was collected from my great-grandfather’s garden.

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Snowflake Challenge 3: Scream into the Void

Challenge #3

In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I know Snowflake is sunshine and rainbows and singing from the rooftops all the lovely and brilliant that is being in a fandom. But, let’s be honest. Sometimes--like with other things--there are sucky parts, heartbreak parts and just plain UGH parts. Rather than holding onto those slights and resentments, or burying them and pretending they don’t exist, just to have them slowly and almost imperceptibly seep into the rest of the challenges this month, why don’t we just let it all out?

For those of us who celebrate Festivus for the rest of us, this will be familiar. We call it “Airing of Grievances” and it is actually very satisfying, whether you do it tongue in cheek, get introspective or just literally scream.

Warning: Here there be dragons.



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Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy and cold.  There is snow north of us, but not here.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a flock of sparrows at the hopper and tray feeders, and a female downy woodpecker on the suet cage. 

Moment of Silence: Pelé

Famous soccer player Pelé passed away recently, and my partner Doug tipped me to this video of his appearance on The Tonight Show.