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there was a CONVERSATION yesterday.  Slow and well,  just slow.  And without any details,  yes.  I Will be in this space for the Water Months.  No.  the hut will NOt  be going forward.   for now.  for a "while".   OK.  

and oddly enough,  that conversation was energizing.  I went over to B,  where the hut will someday become and did some housekeeping.  I took down the temporary fencing that was supposed to keep the Goats out and didnt,  i rolled it and put it away.  I tidied up the little Failure to Thrive garden,  rearranging things.   Sat and thought.  A lot.  About where things might be,  someday.   Thought about hauling cut branches to make  some kind of raised bed that will include this amendment soil from what Jenny calls the Worm Farm that is an organic soil place just around the corner.  I went there with Alyssia in the spring and it's amazing,  a HUge yard of all manner of soil amendment,  and in the "store" part,  all manner again of stuff to help things grow and i wandered there,  looking and taking it in,  and talking to the nice woman in her 60's who is the proprietor,  and she asked what i wanted and i said, well,  for a first year garden here and she suggested the above and there was something Missing from the exchange,  but i couldn't put my finger on it and as we were driving away,  I said to Alyssia…why?….why would people need all that?  And she laughed and said…Weed Growers.  It's for Weed….and i felt so naive,  but still i have these bags:   aged forest procducts sphangum peat moss,  Pacific North West Seagoing fish emulsion, Crab meal,  shrimp meal,  earthworm castings,  sandy loam perlite fissilized batguano, granite dust, Norwiegen kelp meal and oystershell

 

 

 

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over there,  by the hammock,  i brought the walnuts that LaceLady sent,  from Washington State,  i brought the enamel pot and then,  the copper pot that's not yet pictured,  put the walnuts,  water.  Not sure yet about place….what receives the most SUN as the days go on…watching.

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16 responses to “Washington Post opinion: Stop pretending everything is okay.”

  1. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    My first few months working in the greenhouse business–I had many male customers with long chains attached to their wallets (filled with crisp unused $100 bills) and long chats about the “product”. Yes, I was alive in the 60’s but never had any relationship with “the product” then or now. Didn’t even know what it looked like.
    But in order to sell things and not accidentally kill their customers with toxic things–I had to learn all about the “product” in detail, the stuff you have in the picture above–yes, indeed, that’s what I sold them. But it grows good vegetables also.

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  2. jude Avatar

    so what’s with the hut?

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  3. Patty Avatar

    The list of bagged soil contents is a poem hidden.

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  4. Deb G Avatar

    Today I am going to be home working in the garden. Preparing vegetable beds from next year, planting garlic. Now I’ll be thinking of you as i go…

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    all plants are sacred in their way!

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I just love how you are able with such few simple words take me along on your daily journeys .. your thoughts always expressed so well. Mostly Grace I marvel of your way of excepting things as they are .. going with the flow as they say. You are loving and kind.

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  7. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    I know what you have explained about the “labor” issue of building your house, but are you really physically able to go through the rainy season in the travel trailer? I want for you to be safe, healthy, happy and at ease and I know you have expressed concerns in the past. Please don’t pretend everything is ok. Love. You.

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  8. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Nice amendments for the garden…but, I am worried for you that the hut has taken a back seat in priorities. What’s up with that ?

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    this place here is just amazing, you would be amazed, even.
    Floor to ceiling all walls and a mid isle both sides floor
    to ceiling…just so much stuff. I wish i could take
    pics but that doesn’t seem like a good idea. Even
    tho it’s legal here

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    preparing. Planting. Thinking of one another, the Vibration of that

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    all the Plant People

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    Tina, i learn as i go. Often, i WANT. but then i look
    at the Whole of us and learn more to become quiet. Gentle.
    it’s ok….how it is. Ok very much enough.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    happy and at Ease are up to me.
    Safe and healthy, yes. I am very much ok and if i weren’t, All would correct that.
    it’s not what i WANT, but it is Enough. I look at these words. ….not what i WANT, but Enough. I learn them.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    the order of things

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