As you can imagine, we live our lives by the old saying, “Waste not, want not.” We put that into practice every day in many ways, Little, if any, resources go to waste on our homestead.
Aly stirs soap scraps in a double boiler (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate”
—William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII
As the bard says further on in this famous sonnet, “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” We’re experiencing a change in weather, a change—to my mind, at least—to more “summery” weather.
Lupine blooming at the trailhead on Mud Bay, with the Chilkat Range in the distance (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
