I have tried over and over again to get my husband to plant just a little garden out back: tomatoes, small peppers, zucchini and herbs. He REFUSES. He will give me pots of herbs on the deck - period! ? ?
He says because we live in the woods that the deer, bunnies, etc. will ravage it and he doesn't want to take care of it. He knows I don't have the time nor skill (I am not a good gardener, he is much better) so that's the end of that. Everyone around us has chickens and their chickens sometimes run around on our driveway. I think the chickens are funny, but that's another thing he refuses. I just hope we find enough fresh food and veggies to sustain us locally since we have a lot of little farmers around.
I actually prefer to put the veggies in pots for the same deer and bunny issues. Easier too, because I can just go on the patio to tend. Stuff like rhubarb and zucchini gets too big but the tomatoes and peppers do beautifully. See if you can get one of those Aerogardens for your kitchen. They work beautifully for herbs, and you can even grow tomatoes and lettuce in them. The nice thing about using them for herbs is that you can just snip them right off while cooking.
We're lucky in that if I can't make it to the grocery store, a lot of our neighbors sell eggs. The baby chicks are so cute, though. I like the brown ones.
your rant about your landscape/yard workers made me recall a funny incident with my ex years ago...his favorite thing to do was weed whack the heck out of everything ( I don't know..maybe being married to me was very high stress LOL)... I had a large pot of chives that I went to harvest some of for a dish I was preparing that day.. only to find them surgically cut down to a half inch tall. I went in to full red-headed warpath on him as I was tired of the indiscriminate whacking down of my herbs and flowers. as it was not the first time it happened. He protested he didn't do it...He just stood and shook all over with eyes tearing up as I flamed him with my wrath... I had to eat my words and apologize for my furious display and eat a large plate of crow.... when I found a robins nest the next day.. with all the chive stems woven throughout her nest. *sigh* The lesson I took away from that? Walk away before those angry words leave my mouth - because once spoken they can not be recalled... and.. often cause worse damage than the offense. We laughed about it for quite some time.. but.. he continued to weed whack my yard so much not a single blade of grass made it...when we divorced in 2009 he said that he did that deliberately because of that incident. *sigh* If I were paying someone to do it? I would definitely require them to ameliorate the damages tho.
The way you formatted the repost of your no contact shopping info made me chuckle. I felt like I was reading postmodern poetry ? .
I love it!
I actually taught Modern Poetry as an undergraduate. If Post Modern Poetry had been a thing in 1972 I would have loved it!
I did however, at the very end include some controversial poetry out of Vietnam about the ongoing Vietnam War.
I've heard back from the owner. I've asked him to bring me 4 packs nasturtium seeds, a basil plant and a greek oregano plant. And to park them on my front stoop. He agreed, and he very kindly asked me if we needed anything else from anywhere that he could bring us, which got him back in my good graces. I said no thanks, but kind of you to ask. This whole thing was so triggering because it's happened once a year for the past 3 years. I can forage for nasturtiums for now, but looking at my poor semi-decapitated king palm still makes me angry.
In better news, my loquat tree will have a bumper crop this year. I puree them and freeze for future use (loquat bread), use them to make some chutney, and the rest I distribute to neighbors and also local homeless. The tree came with the house, and I do nothing to it, not even fertilize, and it gives me a million loquats every April-May. I harvest as much as I can, I leave the topmost ones for the birds, and any that fall to the ground I toss into the canyon - our local skunk family loves them.
Went to my local grocery stores today - both have shortened hours to allow for more cleaning an re-stocking. The Vons has special hours 7-9am for seniors, immunosuppressed, etc., so we went at 7:15am. It was still too packed, and there were way too many young people who I doubt are immunocompromised (because if so, they should be wearing a mask in public regardless of pandemic). We scored a few rolls of paper towels so that's a win.
Hoping the weather improves - hubby and I would like to head out for a hike in the desert...
Parking this here.
Imagine being on a river trip for weeks and coming home to a changed world. There have been a number of people who have experienced just that. Some on wilderness retreats, others on rafting trips and all out of contact. with civilization.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/03/19/grand-canyon-rafters-coronavirus-moos-ebof-pkg-vpx.cnn
I am in Mexico attempting to get back to Canada with my husband and cat. Each time we accelerate our return (by paying a lot of $$ to change the date) something happens. WestJet cancelled all flights the next day & we rushed to get home via Chicago. As it stands, we leave Puerto Vallarta on Sunday with a transit in O’Hare but I am now hearing of southern border closures and, on this forum, a national lockdown in the US. So now I am wondering if we will leave this weekend or should we just batten the hatches down here in Mexico until commercial flights resume, which could be in a month or so. Fortunately, we have the resources to do so. We are in a small community - by the ocean - and our place is behind high walls and there is a private pool for me to swim in. The supermarket (still well stocked) is a few minutes away. There are concerns that Mexico is a little lax with not closing its borders and may be like Italy but if our third attempt at flying out is cancelled again, should I just be reading it as a sign from the Universe to just stay? And avoid crowded planes and crowded transit stops like Chicago? There is the press of public opinion & from the Canadian govt to get back as soon as possible and repatriation flights are put on at last minute but we are 2 “seniors” and a cat. I am concerned about lining up in a crowded airport in the hope of a standby repatriation flight. Would love any input from all the light workers on this forum. Thank you.