A good Thursday

This is Leonard.  He is the man.  He taught us about bee keeping today.

Note the hive box and honey.  yum.

 Yes, he's as adorable in person as he apears below.

Sunshine, mustard flowers, oak trees and bee boxes.

This is their front porch and entry way.  

Mis amigos.

Mis amigos son addicto a CocaCola.  

Or something like that.  But really, it's milk.

Ronald is 28, from Peru, and very nice.  

He is a herder and quite the cowboy.

And yes ladies, he's single.

Laurel is 30, from Greenwood, and very nice.

She likes wearing wool and feeding animals that make wool.

She doesn't need to make babies because she has several orphan babies to feed at the farm.

Baby.

This ornery little beast is stinky and thrashes around while you feed him.

Ronald doesn't like wearing the cow's milk froth on his shirt, so I tend to do it.

My partner in crime.

Yosef and I took a box of vegetables to a microdistillery tonight; 

we are going to collect their used grains to compost and build wonderful soil!

the face of cuteness... babies on the farm!

Peeps and Unicron: the wee-ist members of our family.

 baby booties!

 Seed party!  complete with beautiful packaging

 my dresser with a plethora of bird cards and a delicious breakfast of 

cornmeal cranberry pancakes and greens.

 The strongest little seedlings you'd ever want to know...
an entire greenhouse of them!  Compost tea is amazing stuff!

 How pathetic/ridiculously cute are these things?

 I took a shroomadelic stroll through oak trees and vineyards on this sunny sunday.

 This is where I live!!!

 Midge and I.  The October 31st babies of the house.

Ever seen a lady with TWO red-shafted flicker feathers in her hair?

so i'm a slacker...

But the good news is that some other, more responsible, kids on the farm are blogging as well!

http://petalumacagreenstring.wordpress.com/

Check it.  My homey Marzipan is orchestrating the blog and I find it quite nice.  Now I don't have to think or write meaningful or sensical sentences!  Now I can sit back and post pictures and comments I find witty.

Below, delicious food.

and a random shot from the new year complete with sewing machine and dead holiday tree.

things to tell you...
I don't know.  Life is good for the most part.  I eat like a queen, I play in the soil, I can't much complain.  There are baby sheep here now and really cute sheep herding dogs.  I've met some really amazing kids.  I can't believe that it is possible for me to live with 11 other humans- I never thought this would be.  I want to wrestle them with hugs.  I'm listening to Polka Dot Dot Dot.  I'm learning ridiculous amounts.  My digestive system has never been happier.  Jessica  Brown visited for a night.  One of the fellows here did a mini presentation on the history of bicycles; it reminded me of when Aaron used to give raptor ID presentations to the crew in the Goshutes.  I got an amazing wool sweater from one of the girls here because she said it is weird looking.  It's beautiful!  I'll post a picture.  My mother brought one sweet tandem bicycle down from Sacramento and it has been nothing but smiles, laughter, and a little bit of fear.  We also have baby chicks and we are currently incubating duck eggs.  Fermentation is all the rage here... one of the girls made a jug of ginger beer (non alcoholic) which we enjoyed hardily on the new year.  Now theres a huge jug of squash beer (alcoholic) fermenting in the warmth of the chicks heat lamp in our living room.  It's fermenting like wild and going to be enjoyed at our graduation festivities.  Also, who can forget kim chee, sourdough starter, and kambucha?  There is so much going on here it's hard to keep up.

me and my lay-dee tone-ee make kim-chee and eat brocco-lee with boob-ees

and the beet goes on

i've been momentarily set back by... well, in the words of Robert Kinnard, "F*** that noise!"