Our excuse: we have had such a busy spring! We unintentionally took a blogging hiatus because MaGreen is working on a novel so she can get her PhD, GreenDaddy is finishing his last semester of PhD coursework and working his day job, and Grasshopper is long past the age of gurgling patiently whilst we invent.
I keep beginning posts and then stopping them because it seems there's so much to say. I suppose I don't need to try. I'll just start slowly, and pledge to not worry so much about writing posts that I don't write...
1)
MaGreen has started taking yoga again at Yourbodycenter.
Highlights: Her teacher is pretty funny, and her biceps are back.
Lowpoint: Her sticky mat was stolen from her car.
Highlight on the lowpoint: "if you're not into yoga, and have half a brain" seems pretty dated in the days when yoga mats are unsafe items to leave in a car. I'm hoping some homeless person stole it to sleep on, and not some style concious yogi (because it was a cool looking mat).
Second highlight on the lowpoint: Her new mat is not made of plastic.
2)
We've renewed ties to the Central City Vegetable Co-Op, and GreenDaddy's garden is also full of yummy greens.
Highpoint: MaGreen is cooking more, though she's afraid all her food tastes the same.
Highpoint deux: We're paying less for vegetables than we did going to Whole Foods.
Highpoint tran: Grasshopper knows you can eat things that grow.
Numero cuatro : GreenDaddy found a potato growing in the compst, replanted it, and made six of his own new potatoes!
The fifth good thing: MaGreen built Koski compost bins in the last yard after many months of saying she would.
Lowpoint: Grasshopper has lost her taste for vegetables
Another lowpoint: GreenDaddy's lettuce bolted (see in picture above!) and he was really excited, thinking he'd discovered a new way to grow lettuce before our friend JP told us bolting is a bad thing for lettuce to do.
3) We hired a nonprofit tree planting service called Trees For Houston to plant, stake, and mulch two new trees out front
a black gum
and an oak...I can't remember what kind!
and a tree out back started falling onto the cars
so MaGreen sawed off all the branches. It is possible she didn't kill it.
4) Grasshopper is all highpoint...Here she is with her friend Tom Sawyer, who was supposed to be taking her on a walk around the block:
No, no: that's C. Uncle. She is chatty, funny, sneaky, and likes to sing and tell jokes. I'll devote an entire post to her in the near future.
Now the door's cracked back open, we, or at least I, hope to reenter the world of Green Parenting in the blogosphere.
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5 comments:
hilarious photo!
It's spring, everything in nature is manically busy, so are you! It's great that you guys are doing all the gardening, though yes, bolted lettuce will no longer be so yummy, even if it is pretty.
I'm so happy to hear how things are going! Spring has finally come to us in the north... pretty flowers are growing outdoors and some interesting (and somehow unlabeled) veggies are starting to grow in the greenhouse!
Glad you're back. I was thinking of tagging you to kick-start the blog. :)
I intentionally let the coriander bolt last year, and there were beautiful flowers that attracted many bees.
the garden looks great. lettuce bolts. that is just what it does in warm weather. the good news is that it is a great fall crop, so just plant some more when it cools down. and where you live, you can grow those greens like kale and chard all winter!
of course i love the photo of ch. and grasshopper.
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