Months 7 – 9, that is, May to and including July. So I’ve been slacking a bit, not on the practice – I hope – but on the monitoring and recording. Then again, if your practice isn’t wholly a routine yet, monitoring and recording may well be essential (not sufficient, of course, but necessary)… Let’s …
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Growing Children in the Garden
A couple of days ago Amie was helping me in the garden. She was raking away the weeds I had just hoed – though raking around is closer to the truth. There was a lot of chopping with her little rake, too close to my face. There was also yelling – “Go away, weeeeeds, go …
Nipples, Mammals, Camels
DH is changing into this PJs, Amie looks on and asks: – What are these? – My chest muscles. – No, these. – Nipples. – What are they used for? (Snicker from Mama in the other room.) – (Laughs too) Nothing. On me they’re useless. – Then how did they grow there? – They grow …
Garden News
The rain barrels were finally installed, all four of them, on Sunday, and for once I looked forward to the rain on Monday, which filled them all up in 15 minutes! We have a fifth (metal) barrel, a well-made one which we got from a neighbor, but before I use it I want to ask …
Garden Bounty
These are today’s pickings: green beans (mostly Provider), some mint and thyme, snipped onions tops and some more Swiss Chard. In a few weeks I’ll be laughing at the amounts in this picture (I hope)… Amie was picking too, buckwheat flowers in our patch up front. Some of the buckwheat has gone to seed, so …
Food from the Garden
I harvested the fingerling potatoes because I suspected Late Blight. If they had had one more month, they would’ve made for a good yield. Now… not so much. Let’s just say that 2.5 lbs of seed potato went in and less came out. You do the math! And please don’t call them cute. Potatoes from …
The Artist is at Work
This is a long but uncomplicated and happy post ;) Yesterday Amie told me” “I want to see all the people and the cities and all the things in the whole world, and listen to all the music” [we were listening to a Mozart symphony]. “I want to be a music listener, and an artist, …
Thinking of Transition
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Stocking up on Wood
This is from the two oaks we had taken down a few weeks ago. The stacks in the back are three deep. And all this is in addition to the pile from last year. We were glad to have the oak to the East taken away, especially after this was revealed: Totally rotten and hollow …
The Brumble/Gumble/Mumble Rule? (I forget)
A couple of days ago Amie and I were having some milk and coffee (respectively) in a coffee shop when she spotted the large lump on the back of the head of the man sitting right behind her. I had seen it long before she did and was hoping she wouldn’t turn around because I …
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