Janis Joplin sings
One of these mornings
Youre gonna rise, rise up singing,
Youre gonna spread your wings,
Child, and take, take to the sky,
Lord, the sky.
in “Summertime.”
That’s close to how I’ve been feeling lately. Like my sap is rising, or like I’m gathering energy and ready to soar. It’s a good feeling, especially after how tired I was [...]
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Summertime
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Snake, Strawberries, Onions, Carrot, Beans
Posted in Garden, SFG, Uncategorized, tagged carrot, Garden, nantes, onion, organic garden, racer, SFG, snake, sqaure foot garden, strawberries, sweet onion on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Life has been busy with one special event or another. Just got done with a benefit performance of Rocky Horror over at church. That was a blast!
YESTERDAY
Yesterday and today we put in some garden work. We’d started do last month but got derailed, but I think we’re definitely going now. The momentum [...]
Peace Film Festival Sept 17 – 20
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This one not only comes across my desk, it runs around and stirs all the rest up in a flurry!
Mark your calendars for one of Orlando’s most significant cultural events, the Global Peace Film Festival, held [...]
Second Annual Kid’s Festival by Simple Living Institute
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged econ farm, event, fetival, kid, simple living institute on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Second Annual Kid’s Festival by the Simple Living Institute is coming on Sept. 20th! Here’s the scoop:
The Kids’ Festival is an event custom-made for children aged 5-12 to explore and engage in Simple Living-style activities including conservation and organic farming. This event will be held at the Econ Farm,which is a rustic outdoor setting, [...]
Green Elephant Book Sale Aug 15 & 16th!
Posted in Uncategorized on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today Julia and I joined a crowd od 12+ volutneers who came out to cope with the set up for the big used book sale down at First Unitarian. The Green Elephant Book Sale is going to be good! I already bought 7 books!
The whole room was filled with tables. We had boxes up at [...]
Food Shopping Reviews: Orlando Organics
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, Fruit, organic, orlando organics, produce, Vegetable on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a big fan of fresh produce. That’s why I grow some in my garden! But I can’t always grow everything I want. Since Fall brings “harvest” to my mind, I decided to write a mini-series of food shopping reviews. First up? Orlando Organics!
ORLANDO ORGANICS
For a few years, I was getting my produce delivered from [...]
Fall seedlings
Posted in Uncategorized on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend Julia and I took a quick minute to put out two trays. Basil, yellow tomatoes, yellow peppers. Labeled them with old plastic knives and Sharpie. I have some room yet to consider some other seedlings and there are some things I want to direct sow.
It was just nice to spend some time doing [...]
Drying Herbs and End of Summer Garden
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we are spending at home. I have a long “to do” list and while I’ve knocked most of it out, neither am I killing myself over it either.
I have enough work going on tomorrow. I’m still beat from yesterday. And the trouble with being an active volunteer and being a SAHM is that [...]
Community Rummage Sale on July 19th in Downtown area!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Florida School of Holistic Living is holding a rummage sale as a fundraiser. The flier went across my desk a little while ago and then I got distracted amassing things to donate both from myself personally, and then from The Alliance Continuuing Bazaar thrift shop over at First Unitarian.
My foyer looks nuts, and my car [...]
Black Cat Cafe’s 14th Anniversary!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We don’t get to make it out as often as we’d like with a little one prone to… well… kiddie MOODS.
But we did make it out to the 14th anniversray edition of the Black Cat Cafe on May 9th.
I brought my camera in hopes of trying to meet the challenge of taking pix in the [...]
