Category: Blog
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One Year In
The call of mating red-tails fills the air as they gracefully swoop and chase each other from pine to oak, back to pine, frolicking, circling, diving around the house and our woods. These are our red-tails, the pair that live amongst our trees, hunt in our pasture, and perch upon our newly placed fence posts.…
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Summers End at the Lazy Moon
Summer ended abruptly a couple of weeks ago with a cool rain and a break in the heat. Our kiln dried hillside began its process of reawakening as the rains permeated the dirt bringing life to the roots that had laid dormant through the summer heat. While the hillside may have lazy slumbered through the…
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Goodbye my sweet friend
Yesterday evening we said goodbye to our sweet Chloe dog. She rested on the porch under the oaks with a cool fall breeze blowing in as she exhaled her final breaths. This morning as I go about my routines I’m left with a hole in my actions and my heart. Chloe was my daily companion…
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Starry Nights
Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human? Neil Gaiman, Stardust One of the most outstanding parts of living out here in the country has been the stars. On a moonless night they are so bright you can lay out in the driveway…
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Fire
I had just gotten in bed and was reading my book when I began to hear the odd popping noises. I lay there for a minute trying to decide what the noise was before deciding some idiot had gotten into a box of 4th of July fireworks. After a few more moments of getting upset…
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Bathtub Project
One of our favorite projects at our old place was the rehabilitation and placement of an old clawfoot tub in the backyard. The outside tub was an amazing place to relax at the end of the evening and great for the boys to splash around in. At our new home we knew it was only…
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May at Lazy Moon
Our bedroom windows face the eastern sky and as such the room lightens every morning with the dawn. Even before that the birds who call the eastern oak forest home begin their morning calls. Even in my half sleep state I can hear the song begin softly and grow. I haven’t compelled myself to begin…
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Cleaning the garden beds
I’m not entirely sure how long the garden beds have been on the top of the hill. Looking back through google earth they seem to appear in April of 2013, but there is a bit of a time gap before that. I’m also not sure how they were done, were they gopher proofed? What kind…
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Wind, Red Flags & Motivation
Yesterday was a very windy day. The breeze built through the afternoon before switching from our normal western breeze to a stiff easterly wind. The day before I had seen red flag warnings going up for parts of the foothills and coastal range. Though it is only mid May, yesterday was an important reminder that…
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Mapping out the farm
One of the things I’ve heard over and over again is that you should really spend a year on your property before you start making significant changes. Somehow I really doubt that we are going to make it that year, but I feel that the next best thing is to try to understand the property…
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