Category: Alchemist’s Apron

  • Coffee’s gone, eggs, cheese grits, and leftover chili devoured. Listening to Michelle Wolf’s Netflix show in the background. She is really funny, but there’s a little too much screeching going on, so switching to Radio Heartland. Ah! Mountain Stage. That is perfect. Today is muggy and damp but so far no rain. Sandy finally gave…

  • I just haven’t been able to make myself blog lately. So here are a few paragraphs to catch up on April. The bed in the Back Forty is complete and I couldn’t be happier with it. The swale was constructed just in time to catch the heavy rains we have had in the past couple…

  • Last weekend Sandy and I went to Lake Waccamaw and I gathered materials to dye my project for India Flint’s online class, “The Alchemist’s Apron.” I’ve experimented with natural dyes down there before without a whole lot of luck. This time, using a good mordant and bundling the plant materials directly in contact with the…