Be joyful though you have considered all the facts
A week or so after my “I need to do something!” moment I stumbled across Wendell Berry’s essay “American Imagination and the Civil Way”. It pretty much answered my question, “But What?” The answer was Transition, of course, or more generally speaking, going out there and talking to people. This one’s philosophical. I hope you …
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A friend came by today to pick up straw bales for his garden (I also gave him the quince atchar he supplied the quinces for, and my infamous apple peel jelly). He asked me why I am trying Transition again. I couldn’t quite answer clearly. I’m not clear in my head about the many causes …
This bread is so good. We had it with homemade pesto (last harvest of homegrown basil) and the last Brandywine tomatoes. Tomorrow if I am feeling better I’ll pull all the tomatoes, peppers and eggplants from the hoop house, chop them up, and mix them with the orphan punkins, of which we received three more …
Found the next batch of orphan punkins under our mailbox, and a bag of rotten apples too. What must the neighbors be thinking?! Oh, wait, it’s the neighbors who brought them here! Along with out Jack-O-Lanterns it makes for a big haul of soon-to-be-compost.
So I’m not going to be able to bake a bread every day, but it’s cool. Taking advantage of the hot oven, I also baked a punkin pie, using this wonderful recipe (but with canned pumpkin puree). I can’t show you pictures because it’s mostly gone already. I may become a (modest) baker after all. …
I wrote some time ago about needing to do something beyond my own backyard. It didn’t take long before I figured out what that should be. Transition! (Almost exactly a year ago I attended Transition training in Boston. You can read about it here and here.) Taking advantage of a rare intrepid, or should I …
And a plump little thing it is.
There’s Amie, counting on her fingers This is what our living room looks like now. DH said it looks a bit weird, those big peppers. I said, well count yourself lucky I’m not overwintering the eggplants! (Poor eggplants.) At least I’m making that big picture window pay for all the heat loss in cold weather. …
It is recommended to plant garlic a week after the first frost, and we finally had our frost two nights ago, and i couldn’t wait any longer. That first frost was almost a month past our average first frost date (10/5). I had about 30 cloves, saved from last year, and 10 volunteers from bulbs …
Today, the day after Halloween, we found our first punkin orphan, dropped off at our mailbox. Amie ran to welcome it. We reminded people of the composting program when we were out trick-or-treating, and many were enthusiastic. And I met one elderly gentleman who was the first to live on this street, and he and …
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