Or Take a Look at One of Ellie’s Older Projects Or Back When Ellie Was More Active in the Kitchen Lately I’ve been feeling the old itch to experiment in the kitchen again. I miss looking up recipes, compiling careful grocery lists, and hunting down obscure ingredients like they were treasure. I miss looking through…
Tag: life
First Post of the New Year
It’s still early in the new year but I’m feeling something different about 2026. A cleansing, a disappearing, a vanishing of something that’s been hanging around my psychic space like an albatross for the past two-ish years. But it’s gone, or at the very least, rapidly fading. This may sound like a big mystery for…
Return to Responsibilities
Don’t get me wrong, it is nice in a way to return from a four-day trip and find familiar sights and experiences waiting for me. But all at once… Such a nice, blustery, tropical stormy day. There goes my intention to experiment livestreaming with my iPad. I could give it a go, but then I’d…
Backyard Journal: Frogs
One of the few joys I get from living in a rural area is coming across wildlife. Finding tree frogs in the smallest of spaces in the backyard is probably my best recent memory. A couple of times, I even managed to put a finger inside and gently pat their squishy little heads. I’m sure…
Backyard Journal: Rabbits
These furry loaves are lucky I can’t run that fast anymore, because I would give them such a loving on their little bunny heads, yes, I would, and I’ll give their little feetsies all the kisses they can handle, yes, my little long-eared darlings *further devolves into nauseating cutesy speak*
Backyard Journal: Catbirds
I’ve started taking morning walks around the backyard. Some mornings it’s quiet enough to hear the rabbits leaping across the grass. Other mornings I can hear construction in the farmer’s field where new townhouses are being built. One day, this will no longer be a truly rural area and just another extension of the sprawling…