Farm plan was a success. Now, I'm told, I might want to begin considering serious income streams. Yeah, later. Way later ( Read more... )

A job and a half plus grad school equals gardening on weekends. When we bring in animals, I suppose it will be (mostly, not entirely - critters do have to eat!) farming on weekends. Once summer term is over and fall begins, my schedule switches over to two night classes and a late afternoon lab class. And the twice a month museum work/class. That ( Read more... )

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Not that it's been a bad day. On the home front things have been nice. Some of the grown kids were around, one granddaughter was here, too.  Good eats, good company, good coffee. Drove to town to watch some fireworks, heard from an out of state friend.

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You're writing a dissertation about...gardens?

Uuuhhhh. Where do I even begin? Sometimes it's not worth trying to talk to people, ya know? The two short and simple answers: (1) No. (2) Yeah, deal with it. Neither of the two answers the question but in a case like this the point wouldn't be to answer the question.

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Trees:

Apple
Asian pear
Cherry
Plum
Peach
Apricot
Nectarine (may not have survived all of the years of planting, potting, and moving about)
Honey mesquite
Screwbean
Fig
Some arid-adapted evergreens
And there are California junipers nearby.

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