Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
My intention was to banish the mold from my basement, complete with formal exorcism ritual, before the Blueberry Moon went dark (14 September at 9:40pm, for those keeping track). That did not happen. Well into the new Harvest Moon, the Dumpster is still squatting in my driveway to be picked up later today. But the… Continue reading The Daily: 18 September 2023
I'm on vacation from my wage job this week. Initially, I thought that meant I would have more time to write. However, there are just too many things that need to be done. Some are good — more garden time! Some are not so good — the latest and greatest round of basement mold needs… Continue reading The Daily: Break Time
No electricity last night, for a rather disturbingly long time, even after the violent weather passed. So I had no time to edit. I gave up on this essay and went to bed. Maybe next week... Though I also found more mold... Cheers, Eliza
Labor Day Today is Labor Day in the US. This first Monday in September is the day that our country dedicated to honoring the working class after the powers that be decided that May Day, the original Labor Day, was too closely tied to the actual labor movement. A parade of organized laborers was held… Continue reading The Daily: 4 September 2023
So the flu was bad, the mold-cleaning process was worse, my car's corroded rear shock mounts broke, and all week it's been nice each day — while I was trapped at work — until about 4pm, at which point it rained in torrents until after midnight. I have made no progress on the groundhog or… Continue reading The Daily: 28 August 2023
The groundhog developed a taste for squash leaves while I was away last week. I assume this is either retribution, since I'm not providing more beans, or desperation, eating anything that was in that bean heaven in hopes of finding something as delicious — though there are hundreds of plants that are less spiny and… Continue reading The Daily: 21 August 2023
The Feast of the Assumption It is the Feast of the Assumption. In the Church calendar, this is the day Mother Mary was taken bodily up to heaven without the inconvenience of dying first. But in the older calendar of Europe, this was the time when it was recognized that the heat of summer was… Continue reading The Daily: 15 August 2023
It’s getting to that point of the year when I would really like to have a four-day workweek, especially since I spend so much of my workday doing not much of anything productive. Okay, so maybe it’s all my workday that is not productive. I’m fairly sure that if everything I do all day would… Continue reading The Daily: 14 August 2023
The break in summer heat continues this week, though there is still not much break in the rain. We have almost had the entire average August precipitation in the first week. We will undoubtedly pass average by the end of this week and probably blaze right on to the average for an entire summer. Given… Continue reading The Daily: 7 August 2023
Lammas It's the probably not-terribly-ancient festival of bread, Lammas, Hlaf-mas, Loaf Mass. This holiday is possibly an English variant on the Irish first fruits and fair festival of Lughnasadh, but compacted into one day and generally lacking any ritual or narrative. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, churches in East Anglia constructed elaborate… Continue reading The Daily: 2 August 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 