tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21929472512941828582024-02-03T01:21:04.243+01:00JardarMamaMonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-22083943576854426732014-06-13T23:58:00.000+02:002014-06-13T23:58:40.398+02:00'ing'-ing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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· inform<i>ing</i> the chicks not to mess with my table arrangements</div>
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· spott<i>ing</i> bumblebees under the lee of flowers</div>
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Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-90331329984113290712014-05-26T21:59:00.000+02:002014-05-26T21:59:21.628+02:00180°For the past weeks (a couple of months, actually), I have been working on a new vegetable garden plot whenever I had a bit of spare time. We have seized a bit of the grass field (sheep meadow) and working with the heavy clay soil; weeding and getting rid of big lumps of grass, is quite a task. Manure and compost have been worked in - but for that job our dear little <a href="http://jardarmama.blogspot.dk/2013/08/around-house-and-fields.html" target="_blank">Dexta</a> has been an indispensable help. All that sowing and planting is laborous, but oh, I'm so looking forward to my reward in the summer. I'm not quite finished, but soon I will be. A bit late with everything, but I'm looking forward to next year, where it all will be a lot easier (I hope). This is a 180° view of what I have been looking at these weeks, when stretching my sore back for a while ...<br />
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And one of our new chicks, falling asleep in my daughters hand. I wanted chocolate brown eggs badly, so had to get some french Maran chickens. They have been staying in the house for the first few weeks (we're crazy!) - but now they are happily moved on to live in a little house of their own in the garden. <br />
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Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-68789144670372231632014-05-05T14:21:00.000+02:002014-05-05T14:21:49.470+02:00the necessity of creatingAlice Walker once said:<br />
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»Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul«. </div>
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I believe she's right, but I also believe, that <i>attempting</i>; <i>striving</i> to create beauty restores your soul as well. The act of simply working with your hands, searching the inner stillness, while quietly listening, is healing you. I find I <i>need</i> to do this, maybe not every day, but as often as possible. I need to work with my hands, to create, and maybe create beauty, in order to feel whole and be at peace.<br />
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It doesn't really matter what my hands are doing, or what they are working with. As long as what I'm doing somehow feels like a prayer, or like I'm in conversation with something or somebody else, it restores my soul. Well, that, and working with materials, that I find beautiful and inspiring, such as natural materials. <br />
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I recently felt the need for trying something new, specifically for trying to make something of clay. And it is such a wonderful matter to work with. Even though I really enjoyed the process, I didn't find that what I made was beautiful. Nevertheless, I like the organic feeling and the colours, which happen to go well with my natural dyed fabrics. And actually, seeing the pictures now, makes me look with new eyes, and I think I can appreciate my first attempts better. I'm eager to make some more!<br />
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It's been a decade, and then some years, since I have been able to sit in solitude, enjoying a cup of coffee, the quiet, sewing - <i>in the morning</i>! Such luxury. Caused by being in between jobs. So also a luxury spiced with a bit of anxiety about the future. Striving to embrace the shift, and keeping my mind open to what the future might have in store for me. Contemplating these words:<br />
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Thinking about gratitude. About how much it soothes and inspires to realize a few of the numerous things, we have to be grateful for. To linger just a minute by them, and let gratefulness wash away what's troubling us. At least for some time ...<br />
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I'm grateful, that our new '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Mother" target="_blank">Hyldemor</a>' is healthy and growing, so she can work her magic and protect our home.</div>
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I'm grateful, that <a href="http://jardarmama.blogspot.dk/2014/03/the-small-miracles-of-life.html" target="_blank">Nanna</a> is healthy and growing too, and giving us many a good laugh.<br />
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I'm grateful, that the apricot tree, which I planted three years ago, is in bloom for the first time. Maybe it will even grow fruits.<br />
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I'm grateful for the beautiful sweet almond tree I was gifted by a friend.<br />
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I'm grateful, that <a href="http://jardarmama.blogspot.dk/2013/08/a-boy-and-his-queen.html" target="_blank">this</a> queen and her family survived the winter, and now is joyfully humming and buzzing all over the garden.<br />
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I'm grateful, that spring is here, and for the light, energy and flowers it brings.<br />
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I'm grateful for having eyes that can see, and for being able to find so much joy in what they see. I'm grateful when I see a flower unfold, knowing that I can unfold too.<br />
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<i>'That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything—every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate—is always changing, moment to moment'.</i><br />
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Tools; knives, knitting needles, brooms, mills, coffee grinders, ladles, bread shovels and pot makers. Good handmade tools, simple, wooden - ageing beautifully, lasts for decades. A so worth the extra price (unless your so lucky to find them used for a bargain). Oh, I love old, worn tools of any kind. Even those, I have no idea about how (or for what) to use.<br />
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I had a question about my carving knife, which I'm happy to answer. It's made in Sweden by <a href="http://www.djarv.se/djarvenglish/slojdknivar.asp" target="_blank">Svante Djärv</a>,
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I've been carving some beads (I think) from mirabelle wood. The variation in colours are amazing, it's quite hard, and they've got a lovely sound. I'd like to make a wind chime from mirabelle. And coffee spoons. And a ring. And ...<br />
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We've been shearing the sheep. Some of us are working, while others are mostly relaxing. Maybe I want to be a cat in my next life.<br />
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I finally found the eggs that were missing. Somebody hid them in the compost heap. One of the conspiracies are now brooding, having a very hard time to cover them all. Silly chicks.Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-17749909896044973772014-03-19T22:29:00.000+01:002014-03-19T22:29:03.178+01:00the small miracles of life<br />
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When unhappy, I tend not to talk about it much. There's absolutely nothing wrong about sharing bad feelings with friends, blogging about it, or shouting it from a rooftop, but it doesn't really work for me. To be honest, I've been quite unhappy of late, having sadness, anger, disappointment and anxiety dominating my feelings and thoughts. Very exhausting and depressing, I've felt like a piece of clothing on the clothes-line, turned into a giant entanglement by the wind. So not pleasant. But life has it's way of pulling you back, into the flow, in which the overwhelming and utterly egocentric feelings seem to evaporate. Ever so slowly, the small miracles of life pushes you gently towards the realization; life is wonderful and beautiful - being angry or full of fear won't change that fact - only stand in the way so you don't see it.<br />
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One of these little miracles happened the other day, it needed at gentle pull from me - and gave me a gentle push in return. All births are moving, but this even more so; I've never seen a newborn lamb being so caring and tender towards her mother. <br />
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And did you ever see an ear as soft and pretty looking as this?</div>
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<i>»The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.«</i></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth </span><br /></div>
Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-76032295505170752572014-02-14T22:14:00.000+01:002014-02-14T22:14:15.267+01:00still here/hibernating<br />
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Despite the fact, that a real winter has evaded us these last few months, I've been throtteling down, almost to the degree of hibernation. The lack of light, and everlasting mud wanderings, tends to take away some (most?) of my spirit. But nothing to lift it up, like half an hour of sun, and a short walk in my tiny woods, looking for spore-producing organisms.<br />
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The variations in colours, textures, markings and shapes are infinite, even within a single species.<br />
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I really felt the need to crawl trhough a magic hole in a tree, in order to be healed and reborn. So I did. Mentally, that is, I couldn't really fit into the only magic hole I have. But as longs as it works, wouldn't you say?<br />
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Starting with a very small activity, I found a piece of wood and a carving knife. I carved a ring with two holes in it, one for my finger and one for an old amber pearl, and added a new piece of jewellery to my home made collection. I think I got myself a new hobby here, pocket size even.<br />
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I'm meditating on this quote;<br />
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<i>»And suddenly you know: </i></div>
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<i>It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.«</i></div>
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Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-27879999982575372232013-10-10T23:27:00.000+02:002013-10-10T23:27:56.892+02:00the art of achieving stillness<div style="text-align: center;">
'<i>I feel that art has something to do with achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.</i>' </div>
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I've been contemplating this quote lately. It summons up with so few, well-chosen words, something, that is very hard to describe.: The art of making art. - Or is he - more exactly - describing what happens <i>before</i> you actually <i>make</i> the art? Is this stillness, the prayer and the attention, what it takes - <i>requires</i> - to lead you to that magical place, where you can meet the muse and be granted inspiration?<br />
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I also find, that it describes what happens, when you study Nature, and everything that is living around us. When you pay attention to how twilight enhances the blues, when you notice how the light shines through a leaf, and when you become aware of how leaves divides and arranges the light into beams - then it can happen!
The stillness and the attention combines - the prayer evolves as if by
itself. Maybe not in words, but in the feeling of deep gratitude and
healing. Obviously, this is the way to inspiration for many a poet and
artist. I'm not an artist, though, but still I sense the muse whispering
in my ear, showering me in inspiration. This is the embrace of Mother Nature, for which I am both humble and joyous. <br />
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<br />Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-44167635782637829462013-09-05T23:14:00.002+02:002013-09-05T23:29:02.812+02:00pausing to wonder<div style="text-align: center;">
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A simple task, as removing seeds from pods, can lead to getting lost in the beauty and amazing design of something so utterly practical as a container. Mother Nature never ceases to make me pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe.</div>
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I was watering my dyeing plants, and admiring this bumblebee, thinking about something I read about bees:<br />
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<i>»In many ways the bees renounce love, and thereby this love develops within the entire beehive. You'll begin to understand the life of bees once you're clear about the fact that the bee lives as if it were in an atmosphere pervaded throughly by love ... The bee, with the exception of the queen bee, is a being that would say, if I may put it this way: »As individuals we want to renounce all sexual life, so that we make each one of us into a supporter of the hive's love life«.«</i></div>
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<i> </i>(Wisdom of the Bees, by Erik Berrevoets) </div>
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... when my thoughts were interrupted by a sound, which took a few seconds to interpret: the sound of a hen talking to her newly hatched chick. A bit late this hen was, but her labour is so appreciated by everybody in this household. A summer without some sort of new babies, well, it's just not quite right.<br />
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So much chick love</div>
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And fluffy bunny love</div>
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and abundance in this wonderful late summer's day</div>
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Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-29499050940917834722013-08-20T00:14:00.001+02:002014-02-03T01:03:53.469+01:00around house and fieldsIt has been such a warm and lovely summer, full of work to do, and friends camping in the garden. I've baked numerous berry pies, the favourite being goose berry pie, sweet, tart and ruby coloured. There's a bounty of cherries and black currant now, but I guess you can have pie more than once a day, right? The garden didn't quite turn out as planned, but we did clear a space for the honeybees in the woods and made even better plans for a garden next year. Well, in a living garden plans must change, as does the weather, experience and energy reserves of the gardener.<br />
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This old girl is going to help us make the plans come true. She's a Super Dexta, 50 years old, in really good shape and still going strong. She was in need of a few accessories, which took some searching. The bonus of the search was meeting kind and helpful people, and the result you see below; digged out from barns where they've led a life in oblivion for some decades. A bit of oil, and they're as good as new.</div>
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Wood piles are beautiful, at least in the eyes of their maker. A lot of work they are, and a lot of comfort and warmth they will give, feeding our mass oven come winter. In the picture below you can spot some pallets, used as support, very helpful for a novice in the art of woodpile making. If you think it looks like it's going to tip over, you're wrong, thank goodness. It's actually a double pile, shaped a bit like a viking ship. I'll be pretty, when completely finished.<br />
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Sensitive people might want to close their eyes and skip the following picture. This is our living room, in a state of ... well, I haven't really words to describe it. It's sort of back to the basics, like a couple of centuries back. (Digging in here is a bit like archaeology, finding tons of bones and glass among other things). We're going to insulate with seashells under the floor boards, a part of our plan keeping it simple and environmentally healthy. There's oh so much to do.<br />
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Today I sneaked in a bit of candle making. I've been wanting to make a lantern from beeswax for some time now, and it was as easy and simple as I hoped. I also tried using hemp cord as substitute for the (expensive) candlewick made of bleached cotton, and apparently it works just as fine. I also like the look of the hemp much better, it's more rough and primitive. I use hemp cord for all sorts of things, from gift wrapping to tieing up bean stalks and tomatoes in the garden, and now also for candlewicks.</div>
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<br />Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-21672806964727763622013-08-04T02:05:00.000+02:002013-08-04T02:41:25.924+02:00A boy and his QueenSomething akin to a miracle happend right here, in our garden. A queen was born. We were hoping, wishing and longing for it to happen, so little S could have a honeybees of his own. And we tried to do our best to make the adequate preparations. But the miracle, well, we just had to wait and see if it was going to happen. And we waited, and waited, counting days and moons. <br />
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Anxiety now gone, replaced by awe and gratitude for this tiny, beautiful miracle. We painted a little red dot on her back, in order to make it easier to locate her in the hive in future. She didn't seem so pleased with our insolence, but I have a feeling, that the proud and loving look from little S, melted her heart, and made her forgive us.<br />
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Before we went to sleep that night, little S told me, he now knew her name. He had been trying to think of a name, but failing. In that instant, he knew he couldn't come up with a name for her, the name just occurred, as if by itself. And the name was Solhjerte (Sun Heart). With a name like that, I believe she'll be the best of queens, radiating and beaming like a little sun, while reigning her hive.<br />
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<i> - Rachel Carson</i>Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-80931930097894757122013-07-21T23:26:00.000+02:002013-07-21T23:26:54.996+02:00Learning a lesson<br />
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My garden plans went totally wrong this year. Well, not the plans, but more my ability to realise them. I simply couldn't find the time to make it happen - and at a certain point (the point, where all things green explodes in late spring) it was too late to change the way of nature. I've spent a lot of time being vexed with myself, <i>really</i> vexed, but for the last couple of weeks, I've sort of come to terms with myself. I believe, that Mother Nature is giving me a lesson. For lo and behold my garden now - it's covered in beautiful flowers, many of them being a favourite of mine - Boragos! And whats more: also a favourite of the honey bees. I'm sharing a little bit of the beauty with you, and there's so much more!<br />
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»Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike«.</div>
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It's utterly amazing to have bees in the garden - honey bees - beautiful little creatures, so hard working and dedicated, it's unfanthomable. We were having a quick look in the hive the other day, seeing if everything was fine, and also taking a little bit of their honey.<br />
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Little S is a wonderfully attentive observer. He has a good grasp of what he sees, but also has an eye for the details. (Please note, that the next pictures were taken in a few seconds, in order not to disturb too much, and more importantly: not letting the temperature in the hive get too low).<br />
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See, how caring a bee is towards another bee, which has just been 'born'. If you enlarge the pictures, you can see the one one to the right is actually licking the other one. Little S spotted them instantly - amongst thousands and thousands of other bees ...<br />
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Here you can see a drone being 'born' (guess the right word is 'hatched', but I just like born better). You can see it's a drone (male) because he's bigger than the worker bees, and also the size of his eyes, which are much bigger than the eyes of the females.<br />
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Comb with honey. Glorious, golden, beautiful and sweet honey! We cut the comb out of the frame, and laid it in a sieve, so the honey could slowly drip from the comb. This way you don't ruin the honey, and all the incredible healthy stuff, that's in the honey, you get too. Given time, almost all the honey will drip from the comb, and the rest can be extracted by pressing. My husband had the clever idea, to use a potato ricer, and it worked fine. We did eat some of the comb with honey in it first, as candy and chewing gum. First you get this wonderful sweet and spicy mouthfull, and then you chew the beeswax as gum. The propolis in the beeswax makes it the healthiest candy you can get.<br />
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Little S made his first batch of crispbread - all on his own! Reading the recipe, measuring; everything. After tasting them, he deemed them suitable for making again, so he found a book to write down the recipe, and thereby started his very own cook book of favourite recipes. That makes a mummy proud!<br />
They are so good, and even better with a dash of honey.<br />
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Today we made instant elder flower drinks. Poured boiling water over a handful of flowers. Let it cool. Strain. Add lemon juice and honey, and you have concentrated, liquified summer to delight in.<br />
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<i>Update</i>: I forgot, that we use to slice the lemon, and add them to the flowers - before the boiling water is added. It's better that way :) <br />
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I've stitched a bit on some natural dyed (I suppose I don't need to mention that every time, since that's all there is for me) linen, which I cut out for making a purse a while back. I have this indecision issue; deciding pattern, colours and design drives me nuts. After a while I get really annoyed with myself, and jump in - without plans or even ideas. So I ended up stitching a quote I like, and make some sort of free hand arrow like pattern. Not sure if it's going to work, but it's interesting making the plans as you go. Observing the process. Trying to quiet that voice of mine, telling me this is no good.<br />
The log cabin square is my first attempt ever of making some sort of quilt. It really tricked my <span style="color: black; font-family: new gothic nt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: new gothic nt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://jardarmama.blogspot.dk/2012/09/overcoming-fear-of-squareness.html">Quadratumphobia</a></span>, </span></span>though, so probably I won't be making thousands like it. Maybe I could make them really crooked and lopsided and feel allright?<br />
The last photo is from the second, out of six days, of making sour dough for baking. After only two days it is bubbling happily, alive and smelling a bit like youghurt. I believe that's the reward for using fresh milled flour, still warm from the mill. Living food.Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-49221919388612259222013-06-13T23:36:00.003+02:002013-06-13T23:36:43.456+02:00The dark side<br />
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Delicious dark ice cream. Frozen banana, some (also frozen) strawberries & blueberries tossed in the food processor. Add raw cocoa powder to taste and perhaps a dash of agave syrup. Whizz. Enjoy.<br />
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The dark corner. Making small exhibitions with natural dyeing experiments. It's a vintage pillow case on the wall, dyed with pine cones and gall nuts - gathered in my own tiny woods (as is the table cloth in the picture above). The lambskin is home tanned (recipe: salt, alum, patience & elbow grease). And yes, we do occationally eat our lambs - the ones that tend to grow up and butt you in the butt (like in <i>la derrière</i>). Which is very annoying! I'm speaking from experience here!<br />
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Geranium phaeum, very dark geraniums, which are all over our garden right now. They are so beautiful, in their own simple, understated way. <br />
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Dark, fat vanilla pods, chopped up for making shortbread (here you can imagine the fragrance of vanilla, mixed with lemon peel and rosemary) ...<br />
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... and making embellished shortbread with almost black pansies. (which I'm also going to dye with, as soon as I have gathered enough). Almost, but not too pretty, to eat.<br />
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Twilight: A time of pause<br />when nature changes her guard.<br />All living things would fade and die<br />from too much light or too much dark,<br />if twilight were not.</div>
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Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-66163161022922423592013-06-10T23:28:00.001+02:002013-06-10T23:28:52.075+02:00Learning to be at HomeIt is not wild, but is is the ground beneath my feet. It makes me see the poetry of responsibility. I am walking a spiritual path, towards the ground at my own feet, and learning to be at home. <br />
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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home. It is a journey we can make only by the acceptance of mystery and of mystification—by yielding to the condition that what we have expected is not there.</div>
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To own a bit of ground,<br />
to scratch it with a hoe,<br />
to plant seeds and<br />
watch the renewal of life -<br />
this is the commonest delight<br />
of the race, the most<br />
satisfactory thing a man can do.<br />
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Satisfactory indeed! Also just a <i>bit</i> stressing, if you get hopelessly behind of schedule. (Ahem)</div>
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But you know, we have these adorabilities to behold, they makes us laugh numerous times a day:</div>
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We're still discussing names for this little beauty -she'll be named either Vår or Freja ...</div>
Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-89114639875950534942013-05-17T00:43:00.000+02:002013-05-17T00:43:15.904+02:00Giving birth an evening in May<br />
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Our dear sheep Gaia decided to give birth tonight, just when we were
preparing supper. I was alert, because she'd been scraping in the grass a little earlier, and looking
out of the kitchen window I could see a change in her movements. Her gait was somewhat
stiff and strained, indicating she was in labour. I could also see a
change in the shape of her lower body; the sacrum had lifted in order to
make room for giving birth.<br />
We all hurried - quietly - outside, and joined the horses in the pasture right beside the sheep pasture. <br />
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Gaia was walking about, panting softly, and didn't lie down until the birth was close at hand. <br />
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He went straight up and sucked, within a couple of minutes after being born. Even though I was watching at a distance, there's no doubt in my mind he had an Apgar Score of 10/10<br />
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It was amazing to see, how tender and caring she was toward her first born, even while she was giving birth to the second lamb. <br />
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The other sheep didn't approach while she was in labour, but made very short visits right after each birth. Just a friendly and curious welcome, and then they considerately went away again.</div>
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I don't really have words to describe how wonderful and touching an experience it was. As <i>all</i> births are. In all the smiles I thought I could read a feeling, of this being a perfect moment - in a beautiful world.<br />
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(You can see the pictures enlarged, by clicking one of them)Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-66852942926668054232013-05-15T01:00:00.000+02:002013-05-21T09:46:45.979+02:00eating green(s)Little S found some elm trees in the back of our garden. I haven't seen an elm for ages, not since they were all taken down, because of the Dutch Elm disease. They are beautiful little trees, with leaves, seeds and flowers all out at once. Live fast, die young. We call the seeds manna, they're edible, and tasting them again was indeed heavenly. They tasted like spring, childhood and joy.<br />
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I think there's a growing interest in eating local, and wild. Not only are the herbs we can find now brimming with life and energy, they are also messengers and teachers. They are all little stories, telling us about the time of year. Listening to these stories, and rejoicing in them, is a way of celebrating spring. Getting to know them, learn where they live and how to find them, also works its revitalizing charm on us. Here's a few of our favorites:<br />
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Ramson herb salt. It's crazy green, looks amazing sprinkled on anything.</div>
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Ramson pesto, with sheep cheese and nuts. Intense colour & flavour. </div>
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Goutweed pesto. We use goutweed in soups, waffles, salads. Very versatile - can also be used for dyeing. <br />
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Stinging nettle bread. I use a big bowl of stinging nettles for two loaves of bread, it was much more green in real life. <br />
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Some of us also likes to eat the first dandelions ...</div>
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Little S (not so little anymore) wearing his 'Buggerloo' - pattern found on <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/">Ravelry</a>; <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/buggerloo">here</a>. Also to be found <a href="http://shadkittypatterns.blogspot.dk/2009/02/buggerloo.html">here</a>. His way of 'asking' me to knit this for him, went like this: 'Mama, I want you to make a hat from Lyra's wool (his <a href="http://jardarmama.blogspot.dk/2011/10/autumn-it-is.html">bunny</a>). I will card the wool and you can spin and knit it. I expect you can have it ready in a week'. What could I do but comply?Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-89756446494765291612013-04-15T23:55:00.000+02:002013-04-16T07:11:55.407+02:00gifts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The wooden treasure box was a gift from my 14 yo daughter, she made it all by hand.<br />
The pencil case was a gift to a dear friend, made from natural dyed fabrics (obviously) - by me.<br />
The rainbow and the sunset was from this evening, the sky went crazy and moved our house to fairyland. Now we're back again.<br />
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Monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939390471914205973noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192947251294182858.post-13987906748059444472013-04-09T23:34:00.000+02:002013-04-09T23:34:14.187+02:00Listen to the trees<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>»Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life«.</i></div>
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<i> - Hermann Hesse</i></div>
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<i>»On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree«.</i></div>
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<i>W.S. Merwin</i></div>
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(To read the poem in full go <a href="http://poems.com/Poets%27%20Picks%202011/Mark_Irwin.html">here</a>)</div>
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