On Sunday morning Chief of Operations wrote: Sunday’s Threelittle (Tri-Cube) Corner:[Three syllables per line; three lines per stanza; three stanzas per poem] Connect hoseto the nextby the shed. Pull back thenpush til thefitting clicks. Takes strength, takesfinesse, takesrepeating. ——— Write to meof March orthe full moon. Write to meof drizzleor blossoms. Write to mebecause Iam… Read More
Amaranth
Maple Trout Lilli, Nebraska Knoll’s inventive and curious Food Correspondent, writes: Spring is on its way – the days are getting warmer and longer, skies are bluer and our bodies are ready to reset. I’ve been experimenting with different grains and came across quinoa’s much overlooked cousin, amaranth. For the Aztec people, amaranth was not… Read More
Sunday Oddities
Introducing: The Threelittle, the 2021 Blog Poetry Form. The rules for composing a threelittle: Each line has three syllables.Each verse has three lines.Each poem has three verses. Here’s one: When you writefor fun justbe silly. Type it outbefore youthink on it. Choose anyflavor butstrawberry. As Blog Madame I invite you to write threelittles to your… Read More
What to do When
What to do when: Need to finish tappingbut can’t tap some days, too cold, might crack the bark.Tap on the weekend? There’s no imminent thaw.Just might go for a ski.And you ski through a large sugarbush up north that’s all tapped out. What to do when: Should make sugar one more time before the sap… Read More
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