usps fail
There are some peculiar things you learn about the usps and by extension our government by living in a rural area that you would never think about living in Manhattan. Also this whole “needing” a car thing is a lot more annoying in reality than it is in theory. Last week I ordered a bunch […]
MOON PHASES
Get the Daily Moon Phases widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) so just when our calendar makes sense now we need to consider moon phases. what is the best source of info to guide us in planting along with the moon. i remember this being a […]
wrapping our heads around farming
years of scheduling complicated productions and pipelines may prove to be completely useless as a farmer, but at least as a learning exercise it sure helped us wrap our heads around planting seeds. Which is intricately related to green house square footage, row feet in the garden and most importantly getting some mixture of food […]
indoor compost, a visit from ARK, and recycling
we took some old recycling containers and used them to get our indoor compost going with the help from some carbon sawdust from the stable. so far we are generating a grocery bag of trash per weekend – not terrible considering we are mid move and unpacking like crazy. ARK came to visit today and […]
Cargo
right now we are shopping in the city and bringing up what we need. i guess backpacks are a regular sight around here with the Appalachian train trail just a few miles away – including its own metro north train stop. this week we came packed with hardware including a 73″ window shade movie screen. […]
BIG and small
with such a list of endless tasks ahead it is hard to keep the balance of dreaming about the whole while remaining focused on each task at hand to move the whole forward. very easy to lose sight of why and lose touch with the best way to use each moment. amber took this foto […]
Frost dates
Cornell has a very useful map of frost dates by county. For where we are it’s April 20-30th. For NYC it’s around April 14th.
FOSSIL FUEL, CARS, and HEAT
so i have been researching cars and the short answer is that we are going to try to do without as long as we can. the cost of owning is just a big money sink. this weekend i drove a uhaul from boston full of second hand scores (another story) and found that we have […]
