Hello,
this is a reminder for those of you who would like bonus bucks as part of the CSA payment. Gardenshare has four left. Click here for bonus bucks forms.
It is wet, but better than snow. Carols udder is slowly bagging up and she is laying down more. We can see and feel the calf kick inside and bulging. This is very exciting. Kira is thinking of names. We are enjoying our mornings off from milking while we have them. I ordered new starters and are about to order milk cans for storing a few days of milk before cheese making. I can just imagine it all happening at once, planting the gardens, harvesting the last parsnips and sunchokes, milking, cheese making....
But for now it is mellow and I am transplnting little tomatoes into 4" pots. I had to put up yet another table in the Hugging House in front of the living room window and put the rocking chair into the mudroom. The onions are being moved to the green house, where the first lettuce are sprouting. Next is setting up shelves for peppers in the log house.
It is like a big Sudoku fitting all the pieces into the right places. The garden map is finished and with that I don't have to wonder where to put crops when, just look it up and plant. (Well after tilling degassing, raking and loving the ground, the sky, the birds and all that shares the gardens with us.)
I also have been digging the annual trenches to keep the fields from being so flooded. I can not keep all water from running down the terraces, but some.
I hope you all stay dry and your basements don't flood.
If you like music, the SLU String Orchestra is performing Friday 7.30 at the Russel Opera house and Sunday 2pm at the SLU concert hall. May be I see you there.
peace, Dulli
this is a reminder for those of you who would like bonus bucks as part of the CSA payment. Gardenshare has four left. Click here for bonus bucks forms.
It is wet, but better than snow. Carols udder is slowly bagging up and she is laying down more. We can see and feel the calf kick inside and bulging. This is very exciting. Kira is thinking of names. We are enjoying our mornings off from milking while we have them. I ordered new starters and are about to order milk cans for storing a few days of milk before cheese making. I can just imagine it all happening at once, planting the gardens, harvesting the last parsnips and sunchokes, milking, cheese making....
But for now it is mellow and I am transplnting little tomatoes into 4" pots. I had to put up yet another table in the Hugging House in front of the living room window and put the rocking chair into the mudroom. The onions are being moved to the green house, where the first lettuce are sprouting. Next is setting up shelves for peppers in the log house.
It is like a big Sudoku fitting all the pieces into the right places. The garden map is finished and with that I don't have to wonder where to put crops when, just look it up and plant. (Well after tilling degassing, raking and loving the ground, the sky, the birds and all that shares the gardens with us.)
I also have been digging the annual trenches to keep the fields from being so flooded. I can not keep all water from running down the terraces, but some.
I hope you all stay dry and your basements don't flood.
If you like music, the SLU String Orchestra is performing Friday 7.30 at the Russel Opera house and Sunday 2pm at the SLU concert hall. May be I see you there.
peace, Dulli
