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January 11, 2014

this is the road fence. about 40 ft. you can see the compost to the left and then disappearing into the dry weed stalks which are Kochia. The most common weed here. The Goats would eat it but just inbetween gnawing away on the trees and bushes in the Oasis there which is not fenced like in the Way Back. so they grew. it's a six foot fence. when green, many were taller than the fence. they're taller than i am there. This is nothing new. i have always had something growing where the compost bed is now. the compost bed itself one year was a potato bed. grew great potatoes. That area also has grown corn. so…for the most part, it's always been watered.

in keeping with the thoughts of Permaculture, i suddenly understood why the weeds grew so tall. Water. Water from what seeped over from watering the compost bed. If i could grow a bumper crop of Kochia, what Other plant could i grow there? it's at the fence. so a vine plant first comes to mind. i don't think there is enough moisture for say, beans. so what else? grape vines. OR, or AND/OR raspberries. i had some success with raspberries once in an other place. but it was where it was difficult to water and so i let them go. But it feels very good to be thinking in this way. i like it.

i stitched until noon. almost the whole second side finished. then noon till dark i was outside. This is a perfect day. am spending some time really allowing that to sink in. what is a perfect day and why. Why don't i have more of them? is it because i can't? or don't.

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Michelle in NYC

January 11, 2014

Ahhhhhhhh–there’s THAT blue sky I love. You know, I think blueberries might do it too. Great idea about along the fence…can’t wait to see what happens. You had balance for sure today, so why disturb it with questions avout the days you’re out of balance? Doesn’t that throw the balance off? Anyway, accept my wish that there be more.

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patricia

January 12, 2014

i’m seeing winter squash–climbs like crazy–and pretty drought tolerant from my experience.

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Marti

January 12, 2014

Cucumbers…when we lived in Texas, we had erected a mesh sun cloth from the bottom of our back porch up to the roof of the overhang. Planted cucumbers and they crawled up the cloth, making a glorious shade for us and thrived as well. On one far edge, we had also planted green beans that also climbed but you have said that green beans don’t do well. I know you’ve grown cucumbers on your land because you make state fair prize winning fantastic pickles!!!!!

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Jan

January 12, 2014

it’s a gentle question. why some days feel different than others. my guess is that your creative work, meaning-making work was put first today. you gave it time before anything else. and then the rest of the day followed, in order. Eric Maisel built a whole creativity coaching philosophy out of that one principle. we may not be able to live that way every day, but I feel better on those days as well.

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grace

January 12, 2014

because i can so easily Fritter my Time Away

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Mo Crow

January 12, 2014

the liminal space where anything can happen & time expands just at the edge of the in between

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Mo Crow

January 12, 2014

we can make a space with offerings and amulets to welcome the muse of the in between aka Mercury…
“he (Hermes) is the god of the hinge … the mottled figure in the half light… who amazes and unmazes…”
Lewis Hyde “Trickster Makes This World”

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Tracy Leppold

January 12, 2014

Does anything live in those weeds, or eat them besides goats? I was thinking that way and realized that where I live we’re trying to put some natural habitat back into a suburban becoming urban neighborhood. Where you live there’s nothing but habitat. Then I think of the birds taking baths in your puddles and know we can help wildlife no matter where we live.

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grace Forrest

January 12, 2014

how much winter squash can one person use?
this is almost 40 ft.
i could GROW it, but then it’s not the kind of place
where these can be stored, many of them.

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grace Forrest

January 12, 2014

Nope. too much afternoon SUN. i want whatever is there
to use the water from the compost bed. not enough for
cucumbers. and…well, just too much direct intense Sun.

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grace Forrest

January 12, 2014

this is True. Cloth, when it comes first, gives Way
to All else. makes the even flow. i can, really,
let the days be any way i want them to. Most of them.
it’s like the Permaculture. you watch the Flow and move With it. but if you don’t watch the flow, you don’t know.

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grace Forrest

January 12, 2014

liminal space
i love this….liminal space so much….want to understand
it

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grace Forrest

January 12, 2014

amazes and unmazes

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grace Forrest

January 12, 2014

they are “introduced”. grow in “disturbed areas”. they
are totally plants that take advantage of Everything. as i worked today, i tried to understand how they take OVER unless there is a plant that can compete equally. here, the Native Grasses do that. it’s interesting. They are graze feed for anything that grazes. cattle, sheep, goats. i suppose their seeds feed small rodents. they are FIERCE plants. STRONG.
but unless there is something that can compete, they take over. When something competes, they live in community. taking only so much, not Everything.
and YES!!!! that’s what maybe all this i talk about will make any good use….YES! no matter where we are…FOR
SURE, ….no matter where we are, we can GIVE to the well being of the planet by what we plant. How we love and respond to the Earth beneath our feet.

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Tracy

January 12, 2014

I was also thinking about native vs introduced species this morning. Should we only plant things native birds and butterflies love? Should we accept that the pigeons are with us till someone drops the bomb and think about what they like too? (I love the pigeons.) It’s easy to think idealistically and think all our local plants should be pure native, but almost everything here has been introduced, including humans. How do you live with what is in a realistic way instead of having theories that aren’t adaptable?

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grace

January 12, 2014

you have made my POINT here.
WE are introduced….ie Anglo persons on a continent that was free of us in the Beginning.
i will find the right words for this and put them here. but you
are so beyond correct with your wondering. Introduced species have found their place. You are absolutely right.
give me a minute…but, YES. you are correct.

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Michelle in NYC

January 12, 2014

If you choose to, you can cut, parboil and freeze packages of squash for use through the Winter. Friends in MA do that regularly, works for squashes.

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saskia

January 12, 2014

….something about what you mentioned in your last couple of sentences, about it being a perfect day and why aren’t there more of them….got me thinking, wondering, perhaps they are all perfect days, but it is us not viewing them as such, if that makes sense; am happy I now have a bit more time to wander thru your world once more

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grace

January 13, 2014

well…yes. each day IS. the day itself IS. yes.
it’s how i move within it. so i could say if differently
…

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