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Halloween Recap - 2009
Halloween morning presented the perfect opportunity to finally carve our pumpkins. The chill of the pumpkins’ cavernous innards was nicely tempered with the persistent warmth of the kitchen woo… more →
Five Green Acres
Halloween Recap - 2009
fivegreenacres wrote 1 month ago: Halloween morning presented the perfect opportunity to finally carve our pumpkins. The chill of the … more →
Painting the Guinea Way
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fivegreenacres wrote 3 months ago: Every single time we go to the library, Isadora heads to a particular shelf in the Childrens’ … more →
We are something like royalty
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fivegreenacres wrote 3 months ago: Eating like kings… +unintended, but perfectly appropriate sea-serpent-shaped 5 Minute Artisan … more →
Random Summer Snapshots
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fivegreenacres wrote 4 months ago: Let’s go on a visual tour of the last month’s highlights, shall we? Broccoli harvest! I … more →
Plein air eating
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fivegreenacres wrote 4 months ago: Plein air, for you non-french speaking, non-artists… There’s not been much creativity in … more →
This is July.
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fivegreenacres wrote 4 months ago: I’ve mentioned the importance of the water to our Summer selves. But we’re finding lots … more →
Like the body, Summer is 65% water.
fivegreenacres wrote 4 months ago: We are in the thick of summer. Swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, marshmallow roasting, visitin … more →
It's been hot.
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fivegreenacres wrote 5 months ago: Two short days after agreeing that our window air conditioning units would not be necessary this yea … more →
The currency of this house
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fivegreenacres wrote 5 months ago: Small clutches of treasure make up the landscape of our home. Our windowsills are dotted with child … more →
A slice of Humble Pie
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fivegreenacres wrote 7 months ago: Please indulge me with just one more post dedicated to Errol’s birth. Then on to regular prog … more →
Errol's Birth: A Homebirth Success Story, Part 2
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fivegreenacres wrote 7 months ago: We watched as the Egg Moon waxed and waited for the gentle, random Braxton-Hicks contractions to tur … more →
Errol's Birth: A Homebirth Success Story, Part 1
fivegreenacres wrote 7 months ago: We knew from the start that we wanted our next baby to be born at home. photo by Andrew It became on … more →
Finding ourselves anew.
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fivegreenacres wrote 7 months ago: Oh, the highs and lows of the newborn period. It’s a time of extremes, to be sure: extreme el … more →
Scenes from the bed.
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We now have a son.
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fivegreenacres wrote 7 months ago: He is Errol, born on the tail end of the Full Egg Moon on Friday night. That he chose to be born on … more →
An artist emerges.
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fivegreenacres wrote 8 months ago: A few weeks ago, I was presented with this portrait by an exuberant little girl. “That’ … more →
The Full Egg Moon
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fivegreenacres wrote 8 months ago: Two short weeks from today we await the arrival of April’s full moon. Many cultures have assi … more →
The word of the day is Fecund.
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fivegreenacres wrote 8 months ago: fe·cund adj. 1. Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful. 2. Marked by intellectual pr … more →
We awoke on the shores of the Caribbean.
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fivegreenacres wrote 9 months ago: I hadn’t meant to be gone for so long. Working feverishly on these curtains and the countless … more →
