Soil, Kids, Vegan — Connected Through Nature
“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising, and then after all, little by little, it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.” ~ Gertrude Stein
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“Let the world wag.” ~ John D. Rockefeller
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Summer Garden
My ‘Green’ Children
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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ~ Margaret Atwood
“The skin of the earth is the most important of the minerals.” ~ Wangari Maathai
“This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.” ~ John Muir, Our National Parks
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Hey, peeps. We’re back, and what a refreshing vacation that was.
It was essentially a repeat of last year, with the notable addition of five days in Glacier National Park — a place we’d been itching to get back to since last August. We also spent a good amount of time in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks as well.
What with another 5,000+ miles on the Hummer, just about every memorable detail of the most awesome LEGO Movie is now permanently etched into my subconscious. (How our parents survived road trips without DVD’s, I’ll never know.) And thank goodness for Dramamine, which kept our two kids with motion sickness well and rested.
Needless to say, it didn’t suck. Okay. Now, your questions.
Remember back in 2012? I don’t, really. Thank goodness for blogging.
That was when I first discovered the keyhole garden from a fellow blogger. It’s only taken two years, but finally, the keyhole garden is in business. (Thank you, Jocelyn!) Unfortunately, due to a very full schedule through the end of June, it may get sloppily planted with more expensive seedlings from the nursery rather than sowing seeds. I’m just too antsy to wait and do the whole thing in nature’s time (seed to fruit).
…and this post from 2013, post-remodel.
I sure am glad that’s all over!
Fall is a time for maintenance. Just as the trees of our property are winding down, closing their factory doors one dropped-leaf at a time, so are we getting things in order to go dormant for the winter. Juggled into the daily sorting through boxes of stuff that held us together in apartment living over the summer was the slightly more unpleasant task of purging unused items from our home closets and attic spaces.This took some time — and patience — and aside from the stemware staged on the dining table which awaits glass shelving in the new kitchen, all is either put away or staged to go away. The best news is the pile of stuff that’s getting passed on is very, very big.
