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Megan sleeps at night and I sleep during the day right now (thankfully not much longer). Our cats can't seem to figure it out. They are really zealous to jump all over me and wake me up the first chance they can. Buddy seems to recognize when an alarm goes off because he acts as the snooze button, five minutes later jumping on me and meowing like ( Read more... ) -
Oh, Ralph
I went and pulled Megan to a Ralph Nader rally/speech last night. I always had some admiration for him and his ideas despite never voting for him. He was up at NMU when I was in Europe and he got a nice crowd there. The only other political rally I had been to was one for Nicholas Sarkozy, the current French president, last year ( Read more... ) -
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Today I picked a bunch of corn. We have been having it with dinner for the past week. I would guess that we've harvested about half the crop. I boiled up 7 ears and cut the kernels off the cob to freeze for later, this got me about 3/4 of a quart freezer bag. I read some other people homesteading who have 80 quarts to make it through the winter and ( Read more... ) -
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I'm starting to get a good supply of ripe tomatoes now which should last until the first frost of the year. Most of them are there so I can make sauce to freeze and have the rest of the year. I love going through these old family recipes passed down from my grandma and mom and working with them to see what they wanted. Tonight I need to stay up ( Read more... ) -
Uh oh life lessons time
I'm looking back now at a year or so since I returned to the US and normal life. I started full time work in September and I'm still at it on nights. I keep thinking about my supposed transition to adulthood - I don't really feel like one even though I'm finally paying my own bills and can decide what I have for dinner or what kind of beer to get ( Read more... ) -
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Alright, I took a nap and now i'm in a better mood. Off to Menards to get fence building supplies!
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I'm Angry
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Tillin'
Today was forecast to be the driest in a while, and the last frost date is this weekend, so I took the chance to rent a rototiller and till my plot. Since this was basically grass on clay soil it took a while but I got it dug up. I tilled in some gypsum (to aerate clay soil), aluminum sulfate (to lower pH), potting soil I had left over, and some ( Read more... ) -
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Today is so windy and blustery and rainy it feels like fall. Our backyard is still flooding whenever it rains, but whatever it takes to get the soil wet is OK with me. I have been planting so much that I ran out of potting soil and room to keep anything else.
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