Thanks for all your lovely comments about my last post. The worst part of my status with my ex-husband is being uneasy posting anything or letting anyone know that we are going to be out of town and our house is going to be empty. Yes, I know, unfortunate, moving on. The girls and I [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 29, 2009
Harvesting Small Scale
I have to say things went well considering this was my first veggie patch in nine years and first in this home. The massive amounts of rain didn’t help and it still continues to fall, day after day after day. We are down to just the beans and the peppers. My real joy was getting [...]
August 27, 2009
Me, The Goats
I posted before about my love for goats and my desire to one day have them. I mentioned that my Great-Grandparents raised goats on this piece of land we now call home. I finally found it……the photo of little me and the goats standing in what is now my backyard. This photo was taken by my [...]
August 26, 2009
Namaste
In yoga, “Namaste” means “the light within me honors the light within you”. It is one of my favorite words in any language.
In her book, “The Wisdom of No Escape”, Pema Chodron writes about one of my other favorite words “maitri” meaning “loving kindness”. She says, “maitri toward ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything. [...]
August 25, 2009
“Family”
Or otherwise subtitled “I Don’t Think Brushfire Records Has Ever Produced Music I Don’t Love”.
Even when I am an old 94 year old woman I will still have a mad crazy crush on Jack Johnson and his beautiful music and besides being talented and lovely and proactive he has this great company that bring me [...]
August 23, 2009
It’s Laundry Day
I always thought it would be kind of complicated to make my own laundry detergent. Why? No idea. It has been sitting there patiently on my list of things to do this year. So after finding the necessary ingredients (thank you Target, you are worth the drive) I took to it today. Having lost (of [...]
August 21, 2009
Circles…..
Thinking about that map and the wonderful support this little community has brought me this week, makes me want to hang up my map and mark the distances in which we can find friends through only our photos and words. I tried to respond personally to everyone who sent me prayers and well-wishes, WordPress occasionally [...]
August 20, 2009
Cycles
The tomatoes are blighted. The beetles have about destroyed the zucchini (okay, so maybe I’m not mourning that one). And it appears something (deer?) has eaten the tops of about half of the bean blossoms. The peppers are proliferating and the carrots are still being dug a few at a time for the rabbit. And [...]
