Pocahontas County Fare

I continue to substitute for a yet-to-be-hired special education teacher, although the precise nature of the unfilled position continues to ...

The week before last, I got a call from the school board office asking if I was available to start the school year as a substitute teacher. ...

This summer, we've been searching for the ideal barbeque sauce. In honor of Labor Day, here are some things we've tried that we like...

Here's what I've been up to the last few days--dying some local (burdock-laden) fleece in the crockpot, carding, spinning and plyin...

We've been growing shitake mushrooms for several years now. Some of the innoculated logs seemed to be on their last legs, and we were e...

Earlier this month, we found these chanterelle mushrooms, which W.C. Roody's Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians c...

I see this sphinx moth species often this time of year. I don't have much lepidopteran expertise, and without the specimen in hand I...

This beauty was sitting on the corner of the house last week. I've always been a big fan of the giant silk moths. I don't see them ...

A few weeks ago I finished Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Farahger. It attempts to separate fact fr...

Last week, I got paid for writing a knitting pattern for this cute little sweater. Appalachian Baby Design sells this organic cotton Lamb...

After an interlude of handbag stitching, there is a certain logic to revisiting my Fairies' Purse fungi. Several rains have splashed a...

I sewed up this tote bag yesterday, after thinking about it for a couple of weeks. I had the bib from an old pair of overalls, and thought ...

According to W.C. Roody's Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians , These are Crucibulum laeve , the Common Bird's ...

This weblog has been more miss than hit lately, due to upheavals in my technological life. After years of wishing, I finally bought a digit...

Last week I was asked to judge the knitting category in Marlinton's Pioneer Days Craft Show. When I arrived in town with my evaluation f...

We continue with the cherry pitting obsession, but clearly, we are not alone in this.

We're deep in the process of picking and pitting cherries, but this assassin bug ( Zelus exsanguinus ) distracted me for a few minutes....

The bear was back again yesterday, and this time we saw him eating fallen cherries under our fruit trees. We like these cherries, too. They...

It stopped raining yesterday afternoon, and this fellow came up out of the brush to see what he could see. This always gets me pretty excit...

Black walnut inflorescences from my yard, earlier this spring.