Been a busy couple of weeks here in the burbs…
- work is a handful right now, and Lent is right around the corner.
- We discovered an awesome and simple artisan bread recipe in Mother Earth News. It has endless variations and is very, very tasty! We are making pizza dough out of it tonight. Give it a try.
- The last frost is just around the corner, so garden planning is in full swing. My seed potatoes will be here any day now, and we need to get seedlings started for everything else. And of course, those beds still aren’t built.
- I have all the stuff I need to rework my container soil from last year, and really need that done this weekend.
- I have decided to build a fence around the back yard, but have to file paperwork with our HOA for approval. I figure why pay someone else to do this when I can do it myself.
- I have been thinking a lot lately about the so-called Benedict option. Rod Dreher writes about it in his book Crunchy Conservatives, and several blogs have spoken of variations on the theme. It has me thinking about what intentional community building might look like. What if like minded folks covenanted to all move to a neighborhood together, buying several houses on a block or large plot of land, and turning into an intentional community? Not sure…but it has my interest…
January 30, 2009 at 7:53 pm |
I’m going to check out that bread recipe. I’ve found a lot of good stuff at Mother Earth.
And holy crap, I was just thinking about getting started on some garden planning. Our last frost will be a little later than yours I guess, but yeah it’ll be here soon enough. I can’t wait to get my hands in some warm dirt!
January 30, 2009 at 11:21 pm |
Hey, good to see you again. I love that bread recipe, except that I get the corn meal all over the floor. And I don’t like putting the oven at 450 for one little loaf. Hard to believe that you’re at the end of the frost. It has been such a cold winter for us, but not the ice that many have. Just cold. The kids can’t even go sliding. I have the two grand-boys here, as my daughter will be ordained on Sunday in her home church.
January 31, 2009 at 3:49 am |
I will have to share with you my collection of Mother Earth News going back to the 70’s. I have long thought of an intentional community, except in the country, splitting acreage among several families. Maybe someday….
February 3, 2009 at 2:49 pm |
Wow…amazing to think that you are getting ready for planting. We can’t put anything in the groud until at least Memorial Day, so I won’t even think about it for at least another 6 weeks or so if I decide I have to start some seeds…of course, we grew lettuce last year in the house; maybe I should do it again! Right now, I’m trying to keep the chickens from feuding. It may result in some fowl stew.
February 3, 2009 at 5:14 pm |
Kit – I went to see my grandfather once after he had been complaining about a problem rooster. I wasn’t the least bit surprised when i pulled up to see a scalding pot on the patio and a pot of chicken gumbo on the stove!