With winter nearly over Bob and Jason dig into Spring projects, Haruka tests out a new bridge, Malcolm and Dashel plant tulip poplars at The Plant, Alisa and Chris throw a tea party, Camille makes cheese from cashews and Amie paints her Boston terriers’ nails yellow and red.
TEA PARTY
When Chris and Alisa returned from Wales, they hosted an afternoon tea. What a great excuse to pause the day and take the edge off our appetite.
Tea and crumpets.
Zoila and Amie.
CASHEW CHEESE
Camille is finding out that any kind of milk works for cheese. To make this ricotta-like non-dairy cheese she ground up raw cashews, fermented them with sauerkraut juice and added coconut oil. We are very pleased with the result and will continue playing with the recipe.
GOOD COMPANY
Sharon and Bill joined us for dinner on Valentine’s Day. The kids stopped by with their three Boston bulls.
FANCY THAT
Amie applied fingernail polish on the dogs’s nails.
FEBRUARY
Icicles and pussy willows. Need we say more?
STARTS
Ginger and turmeric
Tobago peppers for Fair Game Beverage Company’s “Flying Pepper” Vodka.
PLANT PLANTING
Dashel and Malcolm plant tulip poplars at The Plant.
NOLAN AND EMILY
The latest irresistible photos of Emily and Tyler’s sweet, young Nolan.
PRE-SEASON WORK
Bob’s been busy. He pruned the rose bushes and dug a potato bed.
Pruned the scuppernong (grapes) too.
SIXTY-NINE DEGREES
Shorts weather has arrived. Lyle stopped by on his way to a tennis match. The figs are setting on buds.
BRIDGE BETWEEN NEIGHBORS
Jason and Luke have been working hard on a new bridge to span the creek and join two neighborhoods. There is work to be done but Haruka demonstrates that it is already sturdy and serviceable.
NEW DIGS
Jason is preparing a shower and outhouse to go with the newly built yome (domed yurt) which will house this year’s intern.
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THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“I remember being scandalized that the landlord of my first college apartment (who lived upstairs) left the parking lot floodlights burning all day. A society that leaves lights on in the blazing sunlight is headed for disaster, I thought.” – Reverend Joseph Illo Laudato Sia
“The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.” – Pope Francis in his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ On Care for our Common Home
“We are, at last check, the only “advanced” nation on earth where half of the functioning government – the half, sadly, that controls both houses of Congress right now – that actually believes science is a liberal hoax, that climate change is God’s whim, that we should do nothing about it except drill for more oil.” – Mark Morford June 19, 2015 We’re No. 137! The myth of America’s awesomeness
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