return of the blog
Oops — has it been a month? I have been snapping pix and doing stuff and keep planning to blog about it, and then — well, here I am on the road to hell. So here’s what’s been happening on the Little City Farm…
Our exchange student, Fabi, joined us about a month ago, and that meant emptying my office/studio and turning it into to a bedroom suitable for a teen girl. Which meant that all that stuff ended up on our bedroom floor. So we tripped over it as I slowly went through it, Freecycled, recycled, dumped, reassigned, sorted and filed. A month later, our bedroom is livable again, and I have reset my office into the corner of the dining room, where I am able to keep an eye on the chickens in the yard, hear the doorbell and telephone, the timer on the stove, pots boiling, etc. It really is a better place, but fiddle-dee-dee, it took some doing. Which is why Radio Julia went silent for a while.
Here’s my potato crop. Yes. A year’s worth of potatoes. It’s rather cute, isn’t it? I like the idea of making a meal from these and other vegetable produce, one complete meal from our yard. A tiny taste of self-reliance.
Here’s Poppy, looking in the dining room window at The People indoors. It’s like a zoo for the chickens. Sometimes all four gals get on the top step and look in. I feel so exposed…
Yep. So that’s what’s going on around here. Loving the fall/Indian summer weather, still picking tomatoes, cukes, zucchini, squash and beans. Still getting tree eggs a dy from the chickens (I guess they take turns having a day off). I’ve been writing for publication recently, including Alameda Patch, the East Bay Monthly and Alameda Magazine. Will post links when they get published.
And…that’s all.
4 Comments
Edwina
That’s _all_?? That’s plenty, busy bee!!
Thank you for inspiring me to pay more attention to my garden. Poor St. Francis!
annieb
I really like your blog and missed you. Welcome back.
Anonymous
Glad you’re back!! Did indeed miss you…
Jon Spangler
I wash and reuse plastic bags, too. Ours dry indoors on a hooked clothes drying rack with small imitation clothes pins. (It’s plastic, too…)
I hope you’ll vote for Robert Raburn for BART Board in District 4. And Gilmore for mayor, Bonta &Tam for Council, and McMahon & Sherratt for Board of Education. These folks are the best candidates running in their respective races, I am convinced…