Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Central Vermont has been experiencing spring weather whiplash. This is what my garden looked like last Sunday (the 21st). We got over three-quarters of an inch of precipitation, nearly all snow, though it melted within the day. The Thursday before this Sunday snowstorm, it was 74°F and very humid. Thursday night into Friday morning, a… Continue reading The Daily: 27 April 2026
There has still been no planting of peas. It was too cold and windy on St Patrick's Day. The beds were still rock, and I had enough on my plate trying to keep the porch furniture from blowing around as the wind kept shifting and blowing over 30mph. I was not going to plant in… Continue reading The Daily: 23 March 2026
A Parable of the 1%* Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and using it as they need it, start to collect all they can into one big heap. Imagine that they do not leave much corn for themselves, but save… Continue reading The Daily: 23 February 2026
So, when is winter over... I have about two feet of snow around the house. Even under the cedars, it's over a foot deep. I shoveled the walk last night and woke up to another 2-3 inches. I did not shovel today. It got up to 20°F today, and there was a bit of sun… Continue reading The Daily: 15 December 2025
Well, here we are in the last month of 2025. Does anyone else find it strange that we're a quarter century into the 21st century? There are adults who were not alive in the 20th century. The oldest millennials are in their 40s. Few people alive today have adult memories of the prosperity of the… Continue reading The Daily: 1 December 2025
This was the first weekend with no garden tasks. I had every intention of writing pages of prose and poetry. But did I? Nope... Instead, I had a weekend off. I made six pints of apple butter. Roasted a pie pumpkin and turned that into ginger pumpkin soup. Also made another round of spiced pumpkin… Continue reading The Daily: 10 November 2025
It's the last week of autumn in my calendar. Just as well, because they're predicting snow by Thursday. The forecast started out as "well, it's going to be cold enough so if stuff falls from the sky, it might be snow". This morning that turned into "best dig out the snow shovel". I think they're… Continue reading The Daily: 27 October 2025
Last week, during our very brief flirtation with temperatures above freezing, my coworker announced that he could see his solar panels for the first time since December. Late last fall, he bought a house that has rooftop solar. The roof is pitched to shed snow, but there are just enough little raised edges and crevices… Continue reading The Daily: 10 March 2025
There's almost four feet of snow on my garden now. And a "major nor'easter" to hit midweek. I am not sure how the past weekend's nor'easter was not major, given that it snowed more or less continuously from Saturday afternoon to this morning. (It is probably still snowing as some of you read this.) There… Continue reading The Daily: 17 February 2025
In my town, it has snowed every day but one in 2025, not that you'd know it by looking at the weather forecast, nor the officially "recorded" conditions. For example, yesterday it was supposed to be sunny with a high of 34°F. I thought I might finally be able to shovel my walk and maybe… Continue reading The Daily: 14 January 2025
By My Solitary Hearth 