The last three months have been... well, to get it out in the open, they've been your typical first trimester blah (plus two weeks of nasty poison ivy rashes). Of course that does mean I got on the proverbial temperance wagon, but I fell off the blogwagon around the same time. Sorry about that.
Things have gotten better over the last week, though, and I had enough energy today to:
We've been greening our garden in other ways, too -- we installed a couple of rain barrels so that we're not watering from the town wells. Except for the Roundup, we're not using any industrial pesticides or fertilizer. Just compost and manure and soap. (I wouldn't even use the Roundup but severe allergic reaction means we have a zero tolerance policy for the plant, and it's nowhere near the food plants.)
We were biking in Western MA yesterday, out near Zoar, and we rode past one small homestead with a long road frontage. The veggie garden gave way to the rhubarb patch, which was followed by a dozen or so blueberry bushes, which yielded to a few venerable old apple trees. Blessed people!
Things have gotten better over the last week, though, and I had enough energy today to:
- start cleaning up the guest room (inlaws coming!)
- run multiple errands
- go through 4 boxes of hand-me-down maternity clothes
- spray Roundup on the poison ivy
- GO TO THE FARM! YAY!
We've been greening our garden in other ways, too -- we installed a couple of rain barrels so that we're not watering from the town wells. Except for the Roundup, we're not using any industrial pesticides or fertilizer. Just compost and manure and soap. (I wouldn't even use the Roundup but severe allergic reaction means we have a zero tolerance policy for the plant, and it's nowhere near the food plants.)
We were biking in Western MA yesterday, out near Zoar, and we rode past one small homestead with a long road frontage. The veggie garden gave way to the rhubarb patch, which was followed by a dozen or so blueberry bushes, which yielded to a few venerable old apple trees. Blessed people!
I bet they like making pies....
I'm thinking of trying to start a container garden....things in wide pots that may take two people to carry but can still be transported in the back of a Volvo station wagon.
Posted by: Beca | May 29, 2008 at 01:20 AM
Welcome back to the blogwagon: you've been missed! And congratulations on your trimester!
For the life of me I can't figure out who you might be but I enjoy your blog and appreciate your link to mine!
ConcordPastor
Posted by: ConcordPastor | June 04, 2008 at 11:56 PM