February 8, 2007

very now and again I like sharing what I am reading and hope you will read it to. I am reading a transcript of Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden again.  She is always a great read before planting season starts.

Buffalo Bird Woman was a Hidatsa born about 1839, and she was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old traditional methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.

I highly recommend you read her story.

"This that I now tell is as I saw my mothers do, or did myself, when I was young. My mothers were industrious women, and our family had always good crops; and I will tell now how the women of my father's family cared for their fields, as I saw them, and helped them." -- Buffalo Bird Woman in 1917

Maxi'diwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman) 1839-1932

It is snowing today and supposed to for the next couple days. It is about time. This rain and meltdown thing was becoming rather horrendous. My appologies for not going to the Live Chat last night. I have had a migraine for the last couple days, so I pretty much have been laying on the couch sleeping and watching movies with the subtitles on so I did not have any sound. I got the headache right after the concert, so it may have been from going from bush-quiet for weeks to many decibels of sudden loudness. My headache is gone today, so I need to go out on the rounds and check the animals, since other people took care of them for the last few days. I need to check nestboxes and see if anyone started laying yet. That would be nice, as we are out of eggs and I would hate to buy yucky storebought eggs.