Every day Netty pecks at our window. Her wing was taken off a few weeks ago by a raccoon.
A few days ago Michelle and I went over to one of Chucks nurseries and did lots of transplanting. We transplanted basil, chard, brussel sprouts, and kale. Chuck has maybe a couple thousand trees in pots. We went through a few dozen of them and composted the dead ones and pulled the weeds out of the alive trees. There were lots of beets to close together so we thinned them out and ate the beet greens with cauliflower and kale.
The next day Michelle and I spent some time planting seeds in some starter trays. the plants we already put in the raised beds are doing so well. After planting the seeds I made some bread. My first ever round loaves, the dough deflated and the bread was almost flat, but it tasted fine.
After the bread and lunch Cameron came back to the house from a job they were all working on. He brought Shelly and I over there because our help was needed. Chuck and the guys redesigned someones back yard and they are installing a permaculture garden. The design is beautiful, I'll post pictures of it soon. So we unloaded and set up all the bricks then we started hauling dirt to fill the space. I like doing that kind of work, I always have, but then. . . .. . . . . . TRU GREEN showed up and fertilized the lawn and sprayed. I was disgusted. I lost almost all my motivation to help these people out. Here we were thinking about how great it is to build them this garden, and I'm pretty sure when we leave its just going to get sprayed down with all this nasty fertilizer that's going to leach into the ground, go into the streams and continue to pollute. the whole idea of lawns bothers me. I'm a big fan of the food not lawns movement. I was reading that a lot of the fertilizer we use goes into the water ways and makes things in the water grow way more than its used to, and then they all die out and take out to much oxygen and the fish and what not die out.
A couple nights ago was the solar tsunami.
We went on the roof and watched the sky light up in the north. The lights of Seattle distorted our view. We ate cookies.
Yesterday Michelle and I cleared out blackberry bushes to make room for the chicken run, the chickens coop that they are in now is going to be extended. While we were clearing Michelle picked lots and lots of blackberries, then I made a brick platform for the bees because the other platform looked like it was going to fall apart.
Michelle made pizza. She made the dough from scratch. We think that the yeast is dead because it didn't rise much at all. Then I put some yeast in warm water with sugar and it still didn't proof, but the pizza came out really really good. everyone had some and liked it. the crust was thick and chewy and the spices were perfect. Michelle picked some basil to put on the pizza. she made 3 pizzas and now there all gone.
Today is our last day here. It is going to be strange to leave. Its hard to think that a week from now I'll be back in Massachusetts.
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