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Beautiful Existence: New England, Part 1
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New England, Part 1. After a week in beautiful, sunny Sitka (it's like that all the time, right? I made it back to New England for a two week trip visiting family and friends. It's a fabulous time to sit back, relax, and *finally* update this blog! I'll try to get some older photos up from the summer, but for now here are some shots from my first week in Maine. Tomorrow I'm heading to MA to visit mom, grandparents, and friends there. We came back and found the creepy crawlies all over. Lime disease i...
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Beautiful Existence: March 2010
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Spring or Winter….hard sayin’, not knowin’. 160; Well, it was entirely novice and (mostly) I knew it. This past week we’ve had blizzarding conditions – they cancelled school on Friday! 160; Snow. Lots of snow. So, I’ve brought my skis back out, put my running sneaker insoles back in my xtra tuffs, and admitted that I was wrong. It’s only March. It’s still winter. . 160; I toured the Seward harbor for work, Chris drank coffee, and then he played with a lovely harbor seal before we left. 160; I love it.
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Beautiful Existence: August 2010
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Good Ol Fashioned Whale Move. Last week, up past my eyeballs in work, Ben calls me and asks if I want to join them to go move a whale. Excuse me? I was late (SORRY! But we left the harbor at high tide with Josiah, Brad, Ben and I on his boat, Charlie and Elias on their boat, and Brian and some other folks on theirs. It was a veritable armada, with three skiffs heroically speeding down the spit on a mission. 160; The Whale Move would be recorded for posterity it seemed, and not just by me. Ben, Josiah, ...
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Beautiful Existence: Harambe(e) Gardens, July
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Harambe(e) Gardens, July. In addition, I also ate my first strawberries from the garden this weekend. Still heaps of most-beautiful spinach (Tyee, the best variety I’ve grown so far), mustard greens, mizuna (mostly bolted by now), kale, and radishes. I think I see some wee-baby plums on one of the trees, and the mock orange and monarda rose shrubs that I got from Fritz Creek earlier this summer are beautiful in bloom. Nice going Rachel and Ben! Love the flowers, and the chickens! Love Dad and Donna.
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Beautiful Existence: June 2011
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Summer at Harambe Gardens. It’s been a long time since I’ve posted – Ben and I have been ever-busy with high tunnels, vegetable gardens, fish-composting (i.e. maggot farming), chicken-babies, plum trees, keeping dogs happy and away from chicken-babies, and the regular full-time jobs we otherwise have doing major house re-models (Ben) and outreaching to boaters and others to help protect Cook Inlet (me). Whew! First off, the chickens. I love them – is this any surprise? Here’s the set-up for the dri...
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Beautiful Existence: November 2012
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New England, Part 1. After a week in beautiful, sunny Sitka (it's like that all the time, right? I made it back to New England for a two week trip visiting family and friends. It's a fabulous time to sit back, relax, and *finally* update this blog! I'll try to get some older photos up from the summer, but for now here are some shots from my first week in Maine. Tomorrow I'm heading to MA to visit mom, grandparents, and friends there. We came back and found the creepy crawlies all over. Lime disease i...
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Beautiful Existence: June 2010
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Bright Lights, Big City. 35 days in Denver, CO – just enough time to hang out with a bunch of USGS/EPA/state agency folks at the National Monitoring Conference, eat eat eat good food, go on a couple of runs, get a haircut at the Aveda Institute, check out Coors Field for the tail end of a Rockies game, and did I mention eat? There’s also great sculptures throughout the downtown area. This one, in Writer’s Square, is called “Self-made Man”. . Next stop – Boston! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). John S in Fbx.
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Beautiful Existence: October 2010
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High tunnel: Part One. Our high tunnel arrived this past week! It’s not entirely done yet – there’s a little bit left to dig, but probably 80% of the water line is in. So that was my Friday and part-of-Saturday. Susie, Ben’s mom, showed up Saturday mid-morning and we began the high tunnel assembly! It’s a long process that involves a lot of mud, shoveling, leveling, re-leveling, pounding, shoveling, etc etc. And did I mention mud? The site – Saturday morning prior to starting assembly. Our job site is no...
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Beautiful Existence: Surprise!!
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Last week, Sadie and I decided we'd just swing on down to Seattle on the heel of receiving news that Grandma and Grandpa we're heading that way. If they were going to be on the west coast I figured it wouldn't be too hard to mosey on down so they could meet their first great-grandbaby! And to see Meg, Russ and Curren, and Amanda, Calais and Sonya. So much loving family for this new baby! We were greeted in Seattle by Meg and Curren - how great to see them! We hit up the kids museum for a brief bit and I ...
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Beautiful Existence: July 2011
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Harambe(e) Gardens, July. In addition, I also ate my first strawberries from the garden this weekend. Still heaps of most-beautiful spinach (Tyee, the best variety I’ve grown so far), mustard greens, mizuna (mostly bolted by now), kale, and radishes. I think I see some wee-baby plums on one of the trees, and the mock orange and monarda rose shrubs that I got from Fritz Creek earlier this summer are beautiful in bloom. Of Mountains and Halibut. Ben, full of joy, pushing large rocks off of high cliffs.
