Saturday, March 26, 2011

Still alive, dirty, and loving vegetables at the Petaluma library

it's been a long time, 
I shouldn't  have left you, 
without a dope blog to connect to.

First off, I just want to say... go bike49.
You folks are rad and I really enjoy looking at your photos and some how living 
electronic-vicariously through y'all/yins (is there an apostrophe in y'ins?)

for the rest of y'ins, check out their website www.bike49.org

I have a feeling that this blog is about to become a lot more about the personal 
life of this spinster and less about farming.  welp, here we go.

This is me.  I'm 30 years old, I have wild dandruff and I dress like a teenager.  Luckily, this standing makes me a perfect occupant for the Petaluma library on any given day.  It's a bunch of weird a** f***s up in here.  Well, at least the eyebrows are still banging.


 Huh... these pictures put together look really funny and I kind of love it.
It felt quite awkward when I was trying to take a picture of my crotch with my webcam in the public library with folks walking all about. The cause is worthy though in showcasing my amazing new belt buckle.  
It serves to bring me closer to the Jesus, and what he may have felt like in his day to day life as a carpenter.  
It provides me confidence in daily task undertaking at the farm.  


Okay... now for a blast from the past.
This one goes out to all the green stringers who have left the farm but are 
watching remotely and remaining in my heart.  I see ya back there Mars!

Here's the old man reminiscing about his sailor days.  That, or dowsing.  There seems to be a mixture of boredom and intrigue in the crowd.  I was a skeptic until I tried this magic voodoo for myself.  Dowsing is too complex a phenomenon for this simpleton to explain... and, I'm just lazy and can't be bothered to write anything sensical.   Ugh... thank god this thing has spell check.


Here's a shout out to Tom... my favorite Wintern psychopath.  enough said?
Miss ya Tom!  You'll probably never see this blog.  You're probably floating over rainbows 
and unicorns somewhere in zen land right now.  Follow the light.


Whoa.. this goes way back.  Here's the raffle table from our Wintern event at da farm.
Sac of Potatoes blogged about this sheet way back in the day.. like... when it happened.  
Anyway, the point is... I like rainbows.  oh! and! here are the beautiful boxes of produce that two separate members of my family mysteriously won.  Really.  I did NOT draw the tickets or cheat in any way.


All the darlings who slaved over event food and adorably served it to the public.


The amazing kimchi booth.  Look at that produce!


Evidence that my family actually purchased raffle tickets.


Picture it, the Saturday morning after our graduation night.  Tired kids, a lot of dehydration if you will... TIME TO POUND METAL!!!  Metal working is not the best thing for a hangover perhaps, but we Winterns, we were troopers.  And one of our troops trooped right on through between vomit breaks to the yard.  


Beautiful lighting, solid tools and an adorable Italian metal worker.  
What more could you ask for?  And hey, I wasn't hung over.


This is Aurelio.  Yep.  He is the adorable Italian black smith.  Notice how Aurelio is adorable and the first 5 letters of his name are the last 5 letters of my name?  Is there a correlation?  Is in purely coincidence?  


Pound that sheet, boyee!


RED HOT!



Cutting copper to pound a bowl.  Also, being adorable.


And the take home message at the end of the day, kids... keep it real.  
Keep it fur-real, and be a good neighbor.  I love and miss you all!



Sunday, February 6, 2011

an affair to remember

Oh... what's this?  More duckling pictures!


ducklings try to eat my dandelion


Yosef's new chicken house...
these ladies live in the lap of luxury
(this is just where they roost, they're free range of course)


Midge and Mars keep an eye on the fire to evenly heat the oven for pizza night!
P.S. I planted the new lettuce in front of the school house


Midge's sweet jungle bicycle complete with new parrot horn.


Midge falling off her bicycle because it's THAT much fun.


Casey practices his ninja moves while a pretty lady sneaks up behind him.


Midge and Laurel pose for their bicycle and sun dress photo shoot.
Check out that sweet path beneath their feet!


Ronald strikes a pose while lassie looks as if she's ready for dinner.


Buddy pics!  It feels like summer as we wait in anticipation for pizza.


Love it! love your heart veggie style.


the New York special 


Sarah MADE this ridiculously awesome sweater, AND she gave it to me!


I SO EXCITED!!!


A lovely, and pizza-rific, evening.


Cleanin' some cogs in Albert's Bike Shack
(our bike repair shed at the farm).


Nothing like a little Oatmeal Stout to keep true while truing.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

a hard earned Friday

The man with the master plan lays out his vision of the "creek pillow".


Joseph's new ducklings are along to help with the days duties!
Or perhaps they're just in it for a dip.


We dump several buckets of rocks that we've been collecting from vegetable patches into the creek to build the pillow.  Our farmer teaches us to use all the resources the land offers us; we don't need large rocks in our gardens, but they help slow the flow of creeks so that the earth may reabsorb more water and nutrients before they are carried away.

Lots of booties were needed for this job!


More of the ducklings lingering on the creek shore;
we needed their booties too!


The rocks are wrapped in some old scrap wire so that the current doesn't disperse them.
Kind of like a big burrito... or... a pillow!


 The day was well rewarded with veggie burritos from the taco truck, the best chips money can buy, and a ridiculous amount of cookies.  $1.69 at Groc-Out.  Hot deal!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

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!