It’s a beautiful Labor Day Weekend. The Farmer’s Alamanac has a late frost end of November meaning more fall squash and zucchini. The high schoolers seem excited about getting to plant carrots and cabbages in our local community garden. Remember heading to France at 18 to study abroad and all the sweet pet names and sex jokes around those two vegetables older French couples call each other. French people certainly do love to garden. Keep expecting a fashion designer with a sense of humor to walk a runway collection with a bunch of fascinator hats shaped like vegetables on their resort or country collection. Maybe a collaboration with a singer? They would be great for editorials and fashion shoots to lengthen the body with the...
Walking through life is an adventure. We had a week of heavy storms and rain, but everything pulled through in one piece. Sometimes you try one thing, stumble, and something else works so keep getting up. Mercy is so important. Plus the mushrooms are digging the rain. Wish knew which ones are edible. Just look at scifi and fantasy books and live music concerts having a great year while not hearing a peep out of the supposed summer spiderman blockbuster. Don’t know if Raleigh is just a pocket, but a month of walking around and living, no kid or adult has mentioned Spiderman: Brand New Day, not even a random costume at GalaxyCon. Supposedly 10% of the population went to see it opening weekend or something....
This week got to learn about growing corn and corn truffles which given all the rain we've gotten, our community garden corn seem infested with. It's apparently a huge delicacy so the high school kids were excited. Me? Not so sure about this $1,000/pound weather mistake. Given how much scifi and fantasy read, people keep asking about “Disclosure” and going to blame series like Altered Carbon, Asimov’s Robots, and Silo, expect less end of the world pyrotechnics and more comical everyday automation. Like replacing store mannequins with robots that can wear brand clothing and do a basic wave or dance at customers in store front windows for holidays. Which is going to take visual merchandising jobs to another level each month...
Best week gardening in two years. My dye garden failed in the Southeast drought, but checked out the local Raleigh 50-60 community gardens and experts whose land thrived. Learning tips and meeting people is a delight plus you get to pick food for the neighborhood. This past week is particular highlight as got to learn about gleaning when a local farmer who planted the corner of an acre field with 4 rows of watermelons contacted the local community gardens about picking the extras for the church. Four trucks, forty volunteers, and 1,000 watermelons later, everyone who picked got a free watermelon and the chance to feed all the food bank, soup kitchen, and meal boxes for seniors in Raleigh. What...
Sometimes you plan and God laughs. Was all excited to start painting the shop and Raleigh got record rainfall after months of drought. 8+ inches. The plants are happy and the paintbrushes will keep for a few more days while our city is filled with people laughing downtown. Families and groups of friends out for a nice meal. Birthdays. It’s really nice to sit and have adult philosophical conversations about life, the universe, and everything else. There’s a Revelation theme in the 3rd seal/famine horseman going around, but it seems to more mindful eating and drinking. Got to try new fruits called Spanish limes and Amish style orange watermelons. Perfect with salt. Speaking changes for the better, about two years ago discovered that many popular drinks contain bull’s blood in them for color and switched to water and local...
