Rehumaning
Yup. After about a week of being eaten alive by bugs; shredded and impaled by raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, Devil’s walking stick, locusts, and greenbriar; endured thousands of demands from hungry […]
Wildlife
Under Dinosaur Skies
Much about the times is difficult for me to accept, process, reconcile, and so on. The politics. The environmental rape. The selfishness of maskless morons. Racism. Nationalism. It has all […]
Eastern Phoebes and a Black Cat
I have a pair of Eastern Phoebes nesting in the eave of the shed. I will take this as a sign that parts of the compound are being integrated fully […]
Wildlife List Spring 2021
Wildlife spotted at Mons Domus this season. Birds American Crow1 Slate Junco1 Chipping Sparrow1 White breasted Nuthatch1 Mourning Dove1 Carolina Wren1 Black-capped Chickadee1 Downy Woodpecker1 Hairy Woodpecker Tufted Titmouse Pileated […]
My Wren Friend
This Winter has been all about Juncos and Nuthatches. It’s a huge flock. There are a handful of chickadees and three doves that regularly partake in the peanuts and sunflower […]
Chickadee
We did actually get a good bit of snow over the past 48 hours, hard to say how much total because it is fluffy and considerable drifting has piled it […]
The Lichen Diaries
Lichens are cool. Seriously. They are a mashup of individuals from two different phyla of life: Plants and Fungi. Imagine a whole body merge with a portabella or an eggplant. […]
Connections
Social connections do a great service to an individual. Extroverts are happier and healthier than introverts, and often find it easier to integrate into the workforce. Being connected had advantages […]
Attempted coup and the mouse in my car.
Filters are important in most monastic endeavors. Selectively permitting the passage of information, and selectively permitting the information to be of impact. A matter of scale in the importance of […]
The mouse in my car
About a quarter century ago. The windows of my car were smashed in an act of vandalism. It took me a good while to scrape up enough cash to get […]
Resolutions 2021
New Years has always been a favorite time. It’s kind of like a birthday- a fresh start, a new cycle, but one where I’m willing to spoil the opportunity for […]
Wildlife List Winter 2020-21
Wildlife spotted at Mons Domus this season. Mammals Whitetail Deer Groundhog Gray Squirrel Opossum Unidentified rodent living in my car. Chipmunk! First noticed returning on March 11 Birds Junco- daily […]
This is for the Birds
I need a lot of windows. I knew this after living in a couple homes that didn’t have enough. When I designed my house, I thought about monastic life, and […]
A New Winter
Winter feel like it has finally arrived. It’s cold enough out to stoke the fire in the wee hours, and we’ve had snow in several different varieties already this year. […]
With little more time.
A few days into the big media reduction shift, I’ve found I have some extra time. And I realize that I should update my routine. Here are somethings I’m thinking […]
Wildlife List Fall 2020
Wildlife seen at Mons Domus this season Mammals Whitetail Deer Groundhog Red squirrel Gray squirrel Eastern Chipmunk Birds Junco House Sparrow Catbird (released) Purple Finch House Finch (released) Gold Finch […]