where is pat?

come camping in VT with us this saturday. yeah--

~~~elly

I open the intern's cooler which contains cold press coffee, OJ, kefir, kombucha, leftover chinese food and beer. it occurs to me how much i'll miss it here. we burned a huge pile of garbage that had a decaying cow on top of it last wed. it's excellent to have giant fires; they are low-maintainance. you just start them up and let them go ( Read more... )

So I doubt this still gets read by anyone... probably not for a long time... but that's ok, I still will fill in the blanks, if only for my future self... where did I leave off ( Read more... )

we've spent 2 days here in ann arbor michigan. funny how problems follow people everywhere...

~~~elly

tomorrow morning, we're going to catch 5 sheep, 2 goats, and 25 ducks, and then bring them to slaughter.... before the sun comes up

~elly

ps "So until I figure myself out I will knock down the days like soldiers in a battle... Each one crumbles with my bullet in its chest." -Amy Miara

So yesterday was thanksgiving - i got up & fed the animals & filled the furnace & watered the greenhouses & called my grandmother - then i fled the scene because jessie (steve's son) was coming with his girlfriend to eat with steve & i didn't wanna be here... sooo jerry lent me his jeep & i went into rochester, where courtney & collete live, to eat ( Read more... )

this weekend was the first concert - carolyn cruso who plays the dulcimer, the guitar, & the flute played saturday night - saturday day, jerry & i stayed here while courtney, colette, & steve went to farmers market - we spent the whole day fighting the massive cobwebs and mouse shit and filth - so funny how we'll live like animals until the general ( Read more... )

There's a wild ditchweed plant growing in the barnyard - the buds are still young & when smoked taste like the best green I've ever had - the high is mild and doesn't last long, so it smokes mainly for the flavor, which pairs well with homemade salsa ( Read more... )

last day of work.... drags by...sigh ( Read more... )

we wanted to make margaritas, so we searched far and wide for a blender, just to realize it was so close the whole time ( Read more... )