Category: Pellere
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Roots & Renewal
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation You may have noticed that somewhere around a year ago, Rachel and I stopped telling you what we were doing each week and started showing you what it feels like to do it. There’s a reason for that. Telling is boring. Both for the teller and, I suspect, the tellee.… Read more
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Confessions of a Geek
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation I have a somewhat embarrassing number of imaginary houses. Some are in The Sims. Some are in House Flipper. Lately I’ve been puttering around in Solarpunk, building little floating islands and growing things in places where, conveniently, nothing seems interested in eating the seedlings. I’ve never been into TV or… Read more
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That Was Not on My Schedule
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Tempered glass is fascinating stuff. It doesn’t break into dangerous-looking shards. It turns into thousands of tiny pieces that look almost harmless. They are, however, decidedly not. Quick recap: Don was moving piles of dirt; a modestly sized rock bounced from the bucket and hit the glass door; the door… Read more
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Pointy Scraper Thingy
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation I was standing there, pointy scraper thingy in hand, battling a hunk of somehow-still-sticky clay on the inside of the excavator bucket when the transport truck came around the bend in my driveway. I couldn’t have been happier to see it. The drivers, you see, are equipped with all sorts… Read more
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The Pond Ate My Boot
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The pond ate my boot. Well…part of it. Specifically, the pond ate the sole of my boot. Just… nommed it right off my foot. The audacity! I was almost done expanding our main pond when it happened. Remember all that rain in May, when I was waving my fist at… Read more
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After the Storm
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Welp, my plan to start Tai Chi on Saturday mornings got waylaid almost as soon as I came up with it. I woke up this past Saturday to a good bit of storm damage and…you can imagine where the day went. We didn’t do fireworks or hot dogs or s’mores.… Read more
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Finding Family
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The Open House on June 20th went swimmingly, if I may say so myself! The weather was amazing, and folks from all around the community, from next-door neighbors to neighbors from two towns over, came to see what we’ve been up to. Some came to ask questions. Some came to… Read more
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Footprints on the Ceiling
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The funny thing about cleaning a house is that the more you clean, the dirtier everything seems. You finally get around to dusting the ceiling fans, and then you notice how grubby the windows look. You clean the windows and suddenly the baseboards seem questionable. That sort of thing. Maybe… Read more
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Nothin’ But Mud
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation There’s nothing like renting a relatively expensive piece of outdoor equipment to have you watching the sky and mumbling to yourself like a soothsayer of old. Or desperately searching your memory for any recollection of a May quite so wet. The weather is always contrary right when we need it… Read more
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The Week Before the Work
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Happy May! I really wish my brain would come up with something other than “Where did the year go??” when I look at the calendar, but…here it is. May. And I do not, in fact, know where the rest of the year has gone. I do know where the last… Read more
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Trying to Decide
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation You know those moments when you’re standing in the middle of your kitchen, staring at nothing, completely forgetting about what you meant to do next… because you have about a hundred things on your to-do list for the day? Now…it might not look like it, but fun fact: that’s actually… Read more
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Sound Familiar?
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Tell me if this sounds familiar. People are talking. It’s going well. The conversation is thoughtful; folks are asking good questions, considering different angles, making sure they understand the full picture. And then it…just sort of…keeps going. One more perspective. One more possibility. One more thing to take into account… Read more