It's hot as hell today - as it was yesterday.  The farm stand went well and after we hung out in the bar, eating pizza, goat cheese, and  a salad I made from the left-over double-head of lettuce we forgot to sell. It was a delicious salad: fresh red lettuce, goat cheese, cashews, and French dressing.  I love the bar because I can treat it like my ( Read more... )

Andrew, Cody, and I spent the morning hoeing (take that as you will) and working in the greenhouse.  I ended-up covered in aphids which is, in fact, just as gross as it sounds.  That said, I have no pictures of it and no amusing stories to tell.

So, on that note, a word from on of my least favorite fonts...

I'm Comic Sans...


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Ladybug!  Ladybug!
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire.
And your children will burn.

Or, my version

Ladybug! Ladybug!
Stay the hell here!
I paid $30 for you.
Now eat my damn aphids.Okay, there was no rhyme, but you get the picture.  Yesterday a big box of beneficial insects arrived on my doorstep and, as Andrew and Cody are off camping, I got ( Read more... )

Well, this morning was infinitely better than yesterday morning. Tuesday night I got like four hours of sleep at best.  Why? Well, first off I stayed late at work because Grayson returned to the store with their SUV literally stuffed with groceries.  (And, yes, this is literally, as they could not see out the back windows and every inch of ( Read more... )

In contrast to the rant in my previous post...

Happy Dia de Los Muertos

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So, I'm sure that most of you (well, at least my American friends) have heard all the annoying hullabaloo about Chaz Bono on Dancing with the Stars. Lewis Black summed it up very well in the second part of this video. Why are people bothered by a transgendered person dancing on a reality TV show, anyway? Who knows ( Read more... )

I spent the morning helping design our "root cellar" (It's really above ground and used for storing all sorts of stuff) and harvesting potatoes. This reminded me of a story by the fantastic mindabbles  to (in which Remus comes out to his mother whilst she is harvesting potatoes) and that reminds me of one of my favorite things about the holidays: rs_small_gifts! It's a ( Read more... )

And a rare public post! (It hit me that anyone happening upon my journal would think I never post, but I've just been f-locking most everything as of late.)

Anyway, as we all know, koshweasley  and wolfiekins  named my wonderful Sirius and Remus and Henry Miller has long since gone to that great soup pot in the sky, but my current two roosters still remain nameless. So ( Read more... )

Well, our new (still unnamed) roosters are discovering their sexuality and there is an abundance of henhouse drama.
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Apologies to everyone for yesterday's whiney, emo post! I'll respond to comments soon. Things are getting better, but it's the financial stuff and being a disappointment to the family that hurts the most. I just wish people could understand how tough things are. However, apparently the cure for the blues is a good zombie movie.

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