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kantha is finished.  

Today was the second work away day.   Now,  i don't need to go anywhere at all until next Monday,  except for one visit to Alz. B.  could be any day.  could be for 15 minutes., or an hour.  doesn't matter.  

and i'm feeling Restless.  Unsettled.  Restless.  that's all i can say.   January is like that.  and January will be over so soon.   The intention is to haul wheelbarrows full of compost to the food garden beds tomorrow.  Dig it in.  Maybe i will.  Maybe i won't and will just work this Cloth that holds my attention in a strong way.  i don't know.    late in the day i walked around thinking about

Permaculture

how that works here.   

The Goats,….they always watch so closely,  the Goats talked quietly,  watching me.  What do they say to each other, i wonder

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  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Right now on our kitchen table, two huge pots filled with lettuce, arugula, red oak leaf, romaine. Originally lettuce planted in our window boxes but when the snow started coming and the temps dipped down, we hurriedly transplanted them into pots and brought them inside. A snip from the oregano outside, planted in a little clay pot and it is forming leaves all around the pot, the smell of it as I touch the tender leaves, wonderful. Kitchen table gets some good sun in the morning so there is growing indoors. So handy to pluck a lettuce leaf for a sandwich, a handful for dinner; even a tiny leaf with a sprig of oregano to grace our plate for our scrambled eggs…even when January causes the itch to plant outdoors but the land isn’t ready, you can still enjoy a harvest indoors…

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Yes…one sunny window garden for the house whenever possible. My apartment is dark, I would have to set up artificial lights. But I go away, so, no garden and no dependent critters. Just a few undemanding, low water and light needing, house plants in the one window that gets light of any significance. My many gardens are in the past at this stage of my life, and my need for gardens, woods and fields, dunes and sea and sky and stars is satisfied by visits to friends both North and South. The parks too, City parks are a treasure. But my consciousness remains closer to nature than my surround would indicate. I know that itch to plant, too. When I visit the Farm markets in season, I lust after many gorgeous plants.
    I think you are right about the January thing, Grace. It won’t settle. However, I recall February was the hardest for me in the past. But you can spend part of it researching for your own Spring planting. Lucky YOU.

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  3. ² Avatar
    ²

    dont forget the little star in your pocket
    she is shining …

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  4. Els Avatar
    Els

    hmmmmmmm would love to feel that edge …. 😉

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  5. jude Avatar
    jude

    this is piece has a restless calm about it. it’s too cold here, the young pomegranates won’t make it

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    the seed catalogs are coming in

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. Lucky. i am feeling that.
    This is going to be a very different year. i have bee
    thinking it might be, but more and more i’m sure it is
    going to be.
    All of the Unforseen is gathering

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    o, Els….it’s good. of Substance.

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    maybe i’ll try a pomegranate this year again. i am
    wiser now.

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