Posts by: maya

a tangled mass of cross comb

On June 1, 2008 · 1 Comment · In honeymilk farm

Sophie and I checked the hive yesterday. This is what we found.

There was capped brood, capped honey, pollen, and open cells with nectar not yet capped. And lots and lots of bees. Yeah!

Below is a shot from one of the bars we looked at that was full of uncapped [...]

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choplicker

On May 29, 2008 · 3 Comments · In mayalife

When I turned twenty I got a cat, Annabelle, and her daughter Henrietta. Annabelle promptly got preggo and had kittens, all but two of which I kept. For a while there, I had a lot of cats.

For the past several years, though, I just had one, Choplicker, the oldest and strongest of Annabelle’s second [...]

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get yer baby goats right here!

On May 28, 2008 · 1 Comment · In honeymilk farm

Liam and Mike, one month old today. Aren’t they cute????

Sophie plays with them every morning while I take care of the grown up goats. They ADORE her.

You can’t see it very well from this side, but this is a cool rock [...]

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how to build a yurt (5 of 10)

On May 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In alternative building

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melting into a puddle moment

On May 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In kiddo life, mayalife

Luc, 2, put his short little arms around my neck this morning and said (in his little tiny voice, and with precious few beginning-of-word consonants), “If you took all the marshmallows from all the grocery stores in the whole world and wrote ‘I love you’ on every one with chalk, and then put them all [...]

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goat house tour

On May 27, 2008 · 2 Comments · In alternative building

Today I thought I’d show you our goat house.

Paul built it out of recycled materials–the only bits purchased new were some treated wood posts, tar paper for the roof, screws, and some brackets for the scrap plywood puzzle that makes up the ceiling. Altogether, it cost us about $100.

One [...]

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unwrapping my new macbook

On May 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In geeklife

Time for a little geek fetish moment.

Ooooo…ahhhhh….

Even the styro-foam is cute.

Wait for it…wait for it…

Ta da!

And, though I already posted this one, just for completeness:

Here [...]

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how to build a yurt (4 of 10)

On May 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In alternative building

Because the lattice rests right on the floor, you lay the final flooring on before the yurt goes up. Which is hair raising, because here you have 700 square foot of oak floor and what if it rains? Luckily, it didn’t. And you’ll see in the next installment what they did [...]

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i have the most amazing family

On May 24, 2008 · 1 Comment · In geeklife

I went to a family birthday party today, a lovely time in my aunt’s rose garden, eating fabulous, homemade food and hanging out under the sun watching the kids catch frogs. But at some point my mother, sister and brother-in-law started kind-of…giggling.

“Come on, Maya, we want to show you something (hee hee hee!).”

“What?” [...]

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time for a bit of the old ultra-violence

On May 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In adventures

In the nineties, on those old black and white macs, there was a game called Despair. Oh man, I loved that game. In a way, it isn’t a game, in that there are no rules and no way to lose. Basically you are God, and you have these little stick-figure people walking around, [...]

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