56\u00a0 34%\u00a0 36%\u00a0 1mph windroseS\u00a0 bar steep fall\u00a0 dewpoint28\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Snow Moon\u00a0\u00a0 Ordinary Time<\/p>\n
In cooking and in outside work I am an optimist.\u00a0 When I get ready to prepare a meal, I look at the recipes and think, no problem, a cinch.\u00a0 Only later do I notice that everything has to be minced smaller than a flea and the broth watched every minute for 30 minutes.\u00a0 When I went outside this morning to dig the firepit, in my mind’s eye I saw the spade cut cleanly into the soil, the pit growing as more and more soil left to level out the surrounding land.\u00a0 Back inside now I see I might have anticipated the large root structures underlying much of the area I’ve chosen.\u00a0 But, I didn’t.\u00a0 Back into the tool shed for the adze.\u00a0 Cut the root, then pick up the cut end and pull, pull, pull.\u00a0 Turns out this slows down the process quite a bit and ratchets up the strain on the shoulders and upper back.\u00a0 Tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
56\u00a0 34%\u00a0 36%\u00a0 1mph windroseS\u00a0 bar steep fall\u00a0 dewpoint28\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Snow Moon\u00a0\u00a0 Ordinary Time In cooking and in outside work I am an optimist.\u00a0 When I get ready to prepare a meal, I look at the recipes and think, no problem, a cinch.\u00a0 Only later do I notice that everything has to … Continue reading Mincing and Adzing<\/span>