Seems as though every time I log in to post something, WordPress begs me to upgrade to a Newer, Better Version. But I’m not so into that right now. Anyone have something different, better, more stable? At one point I didn’t have ISP access for MT, but that’s all different now.
And here I am, vegging out after a lively Father’s day weekend working in the garden. Weeding, transplanting, hilling potatoes, mulching out back of the new house where there is actually no soil - just clay and rock. Something got at the asparagus last year, and only 2 plants came back - so they’re long past harvest. But we had some very early snap peas, snow peas, almost the last of the strawberries, and shortly I’ll head out and gather some swiss chard for a greens-n-eggs dinner that’s really good.
We also started some skin salve today, from herbs (comfrey, golden seal) plus wild “weed” herbs like White Man’s Foot (which is either common plaintain or narrow-leaf plantain) and flowers (calendula) plus others which I can’t recall now … But anyway, chop them up really well, cover with olive oil, set in bright sunshine ~2 weeks, then strain out the plant bits and add “some” beeswax. [Quite the operation here: gotta have bees to be sure everything gets pollinated, so honey and beeswax are a kind of bonus.)
My schedule has changed, so I have these bi-monthly apprenticeship weekends. Which hopefully will help my home garden. Eventually - when I’m back there again.
No clue if this is coherent or not - I’ve not been very eloquent lately, more aphasic in fact - so these few paragraphs are just me, here, now. Miscellany I wanted to report: I’m trying a new pattern for that wonderful JustOurYarn cashmere, so I’m still knitting. And I traded the Chrysler 300 Hemi gas-hog (much as I loved it!) this week for a Honda Fit. That’s an entire post in itself, except I don’t have photo-edit software on the laptop (still) and it’s so cute, pictures are required … So watch for that next week. Or maybe next month.
PS - With my broadband wireless connection, I may be able to blog our vay-cay in a couple weeks, virtually live.
PPS - I’ve rediscovered music, and spend 40% of my waking hours with headphones on - everything from Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites, to Orbital’s 21st century electronica, to the Decemberists, to the Silk Road Project, to the White Stripes garage band. What’s up with that? The Chieftains share airtime with Moby, Bjork, Frank Sinatra and Pablo Cruise. Do most people stick with a genre that they like?
Now I’m really incoherent. Posting anyway. Until next time…
Sorry for the “issue” with the site this morning. Apparently my password was hacked yesterday, and they changed my index.html pages to a javascript exploit. I restored and now all is fine again. (Changed my password, too!)













