Soon after I downloaded the Seek app on my phone, I started scanning whatever I found as I walked through our woods. Some names were familiar, but this one stopped me. Striped Maple? Of course, there were the stripes on the trunks that I had never noticed before. But maple? The floppy leaves didn’t hang […]
Category Archives: Four Acres
Inspiration!
I’m butting in on the “Four Acres” part of our Wild Goose Chase blog with a quick note to say that I’m finding the Autumn Jubilee Quilt Along that’s at From My Carolina Home to be inspirational. In fact, if you like to quilt, sew, cook, stamp, garden, or do needlework, you will LOVE the […]
Winter is Coming
The junco can be hard to spot on the driveway stones, just like the coming of winter can be hard to spot among the warm days of October. But a bit of movement out of the corner of my eye can be a clue that Fall is turning inevitably into something else. At first there […]
Grilling in October
We’ve been blessed with many perfect days this October, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t need to seize the opportunities we have to make the most of each one. I came home with some nice steaks in our grocery pickup today, so we decided to get them right out on the grill. As usual […]
The Broken Switch
We have been having trouble with our refrigerator for months, then suddenly the microwave seems to have caught the bug, too. When the door is open, the turntable now turns when it should be still. Closing the door, happily, causes it to stop. Some searching on YouTube gave the general diagnosis… one of the switches […]