From the monthly archives:

September 2003

A little work after work

September 22, 2003

It’s stress relief to get out in the garden, even if just for an hour, after work in the evenings. This year has been so wet, though, that mostly tonight we got out there because the lawn was long enough to cut as hay, and it was finally dry enough to mow. All of the [...]

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Short Sunday

September 21, 2003

We didn’t get much done in the garden today. The weather was bad, and we were having major problems with one of the kids. Princess stayed with us the whole time, including taking a ride in the back of the truck! What little we did was mostly very close to the house, bringing in firewood [...]

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Winecap Mushrooms, Firewood

September 20, 2003

We’re finally home on the weekend again, and worked ourselves until we were exhausted outside today. Marmalade kept us company no matter where we went outside. It was very cute. The first thing we did was get started again on the firewood. We heat with wood on the first floor of our house, and in [...]

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Back

September 15, 2003

I’ve been out of town for over a week, and I’ve missed my garden so much. As soon as I got home, Princess, Yoda and I went out to see how it was doing without me, and to see what’s in bloom at this point. I was out in Sacramento and San Francisco where it [...]

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Laboring on Labor Day

September 1, 2003

It’s sort of fitting how hard we worked today, with it being Labor Day, and all. We worked ourselves really hard, though, even though it wasn’t very pleasant weather wise, either. With the chipper broken from yesterday, it seemed logical to spend the day running the sawmill instead, and we really hoped that we wouldn’t [...]

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