During travel and our search for home, I’m accumulating some amazing learning. Milking goats, chicken care, planting seeds in other people’s gardens. I learned about living in a small trailer, water from the river and water from a spring, filling tanks, pumps, and how a river can have no fish if it was mismanaged upstream. … Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? I sang part of Jagged Little Pill to all three goats this morning. I think they liked it and liked my arm motions. It was fun to make up some new lyrics about being a goat. The new lyrics made me giggle. Then this is what I said to Beatrice… Read More »
Hello, thought you might enjoy to hear my day in lists. Ming took this super cute picture of Beatrice the other day with her tongue out. songs I sang to the goats this morning during milking Here are the songs, in order! Love Will Build a Bridge by the Judds All We Got Is Each… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? Do you like goats? Ming and I have been milking a goat on this farm in Oregon. Her name is Beatrice, and she’s a badass. She’s feisty and sticks her tongue out at us sometimes. I embroidered a purple goat with heavy udders of milk, to represent The World tarot… Read More »
“Hey, dear. I think we should make some walnut boxes. It would be a great way to use less plastic… Just put a hinge on the whole walnut shells. Yeah! Walnut boxes would be so cute!” I said. We were in Ojai. Ming was driving us from the farm toward town. He seemed open to… Read More »
Hello, I wanted to share some farm news with you, as we are about to leave. The big farm news is they bought a pretty green tractor. Isn’t it a cute little tractor? I heard they paid $9000. They used to rent one, sometimes. But now it’s a functional toy, owned. Another farm news item… Read More »
Hello, I would like to share more farm beauty with you. We are about to leave this place. But I wish we could stay. community It’s not about us–it’s about them. Ming has tended the chickens devotedly. I’ve prepped some good veg meals. Ming helped two community members with bike repair, set some rat traps,… Read More »
Hello, we were in Ojai and ate some sprout salad we’d bought at the farmers market. I like eating the sunflower greens best. But we also like pea shoot. “Pea shoot is just a nice word,” I told Ming. “Feels good to say. Pea shoot! Pea shoot!” I tried out different ways. “What if we… Read More »
Hello, some amazing things have been happening lately. Day after day, I feel like they’re getting buried in the pile of amazing things, as more amazing things happen, undocumented. Many will be forgotten. So I would like list some here, for you and for me. amazing things list We swam in the salt water pool… Read More »
Hello, we are caring for the chickens now, at this Ojai permaculture farm. Ming is the main person. I think he is the Chicken Monarch. Some roosters may not agree! Isn’t this a pretty pic? He’s glowing in the late afternoon light, having just thrown the compost out of the bucket. We’re doing the thing:… Read More »