Hello, my name is Drisana and I am a Seed Addict.
I love seeds. Oh my gosh do I ever!😍
Big ones. Small ones.
Smooth as glass. Crinkled and pokey.
All colours of the rainbow.
I want to have them all!
Seeds symbolize hope for the future.
Seeds are food, shade, beauty, aroma…
Seeds make my heart sing.
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Coffee is ready!
The best way to spend a day with Bill and Milena is by the fire with a hot coffee and a hot chocolate.
Here is where I dream.
Here is where I reminise about life at the yurt.
Here is my heart is both happy and sad for the life I miss so much.
But the coffee is ready.
And good company is to be had.
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I took up my hooks.
I took up some yarn.
I started to knot my way through 3yrs of pain and depression.
I twisted and twirled fibre into warm hugs for family and people I care about.
Warm blankets to wraps babies in.
Soft hats to keep the warmth in.
So as Fall fades into Winter, I am picking up my hooks and yarn to create again.
Not to pull myself out of Depression but to keep myself from sliding back in…
💜Drisana
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What I lack in human friends I have gained in Garden Friends. They come in all shapes and sizes. Tops that wiggle, bottoms that jiggle. Some so fast you only hear them as they pass. Some so slow it makes one twitchy. But without them my garden wouldn’t grow and make my heart glow.
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I woke at 2am thinking “Who turned on the light?”
I raised myself up on my elbows and squinted through my blind eyes towards the light source.
I slip my glasses on to see how big the Moon really is before laying back down to finish my sleep. I have only 4 hours before I have to get up for the day.
At 6 am the Moon was still out in full glorious force and I was able to get some photos of it before the clouds and fog rolled in and the trees took away my view.
“See you on the 31st my friend!” I thought as it slipped behind our poplar trees and down below the horizon.
🌕🌾
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This blog is slowly changing,
Morphing,
Becoming something different,
Like the ever changing Seasons.
I am changing.
My family is changing.
This year a lot has changed and I haven’t been able to find the right words to write to convey my chaos.
My family’s chaos.
What I had hoped and dreamed of writing about is not at all coming to fruition. 😔 Maybe there is something better coming my way, our way…I don’t know…
So, for now I will bore you with photos I have taken in the far past and present. I will babble about nothing and everything until that shift takes shape.
Welcome to you all.
Welcome to my chaos…
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[For some reason this didn’t get published in Aug!🤦♀️😕]
When we moved into this house in April of 2015, we never knew we had special neighbours.
We kept hearing this ‘skritch skritch’ sound on the front corner of our livingroom. We thought it was maybe mice in the wall or maybe Squirrels, as we had had an issue with them in the space between the ceiling and roof. Not really an attic…anyways.
One evening we noticed a new sound along with the ‘skritch skritch’. A sort of high pitched squeak. We went out to investigate and as we stood starring at the outside wall a bat flew out from behind the “lovely” fake shutter on the left side of the livingroom window.
Ever since we can’t wait to hear and see them. It means they have survived another winter. We are quite aware of the loss of a bats in North America due to White-Nose Syndrome(fungal disease).
On Aug 3 we were outside having a coffee break when we noticed something hanging just peeking out the bottom of the shutter.
I slowly walked up to the house and there was this wee friend(only call them that cause they are tiny…not due to age)hanging halfway out. It must have been cooling down a bit. It was +30c in the sun and the sun hits the bottom half of the shutters.
The wee friend let me get up close and personal long enough to get some photos. It tucked itself back up beside it’s four other wee friends after a few minutes.
Such amazing little mammals!
Look at that little nose!
Snuggle time
Bill and I have plans to construct a couple of bat houses and mount them to the wall or on a post beside the shutters. Then one night when they have all flown, take the shutters down and hope they go into the houses.
We want them to stay as they are the best bug and pest control ever!
I have contacted the Community Bat🦇 BC Programs to get more info and maybe have a Bat Biologist come out and make sure they are healthy.
Until then…we will enjoy our Bat Colony. Guano and all!
🦇❤ Drisana
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Friday, December 13 2019
Our slice of earth is covered in a blanket of new snow.
The moon has finally peeked out from behind the thick clouds.
💙❄Drisana
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Lots of growing going on.
The tomatoes were all supposed to be compact bushy plants or short bushy vines…well as you can see they are massive!
St. John wort
Eclipse Sunflower
I harvested my 2 Cheddar Cauliflower. The one on the dinner plate is approx. 10inched wide.
Vicar Oats
Dill, peas, wheat and kale
Blue Pod Peas
Check out the bees bright Orange-red pollen sacs. Busy busy bees.🐝
Datura buds
We’ve had tons of rain and cold this June and July. Great for keeping things green and forest fires at bay. Not so great for producing veggies.
Here’s to a warmer August and Sept so I have veggies to put by for the winter.
❤D
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Eternal Bloom Farm 