I am the Audience

Reality is false

December 30, 2013

dancing in the field of dreams

My friend posted this on FaceBook. Bolding and italics are entirely mine.

“Watching ‘Through the Wormhole’ while knitting. I like the show, and they have some neat conversations sometimes, but I hate when they use incorrect logic or miss the other options. This time was about how, since you can induce religious experience in human brains, it implies religious experiences are false. But since you can also induce visual, audio, and pretty much every other sensory experience, it should also imply /reality/ is false. (Note: they were not actually arguing solipsism, they just weren’t following through on their thought process). *shrugs*. Possibly, I’m expecting unrealistic levels of care from a discovery channel show…”

Think I’ll sit here and chuckle a while.
Tending the orchard

December 27, 2013

a day in this life

Actually, we mostly haven’t. And I have been reminded via a post by Chris Condello, that fruit trees don’t grow in vacuums and need tending.

So, I did a search, found a useful article that appears to be very straightforward and am planting it here so I can retrieve it easily.

It is Training and Pruning Fruit Trees by the NC State Agricultural Extension Service. Since we are in North Carolina, it makes sense that they would have information particularly useful to us.

We have Mark Shepard‘s Restoration Agriculture, read by Chuck but not by me, yet. Apparently, peaches and plums don’t get the same treatment as pears and apples. Time to read.
Merry Christmas! Glad Yule! Happy Kwanzaa!

December 24, 2013

poetry and songs

The days are getting longer. Here’s a song for you.
Yule planting

December 23, 2013

a day in this life

I found fresh turmeric and ginger at the Company Shops Market, last week. I dropped them both in some water to keep them fresh until I could get them planted. Yesterday, Chuck picked up a pot and some dirt for it. Today, I put the ginger in the new, fancy, terra cotta pot and the turmeric in the old, plain, terra cotta pot. If everything goes according to plan, they should be ready to begin harvesting on or around September 15.

While he was shopping for me, he got some compost to top dress our raised beds and planted lettuce and arugula in the fallow bed. We think the excessive rain is the cause of our salad bed wasting away to nothing. Last year’s lettuce crop was so extravagant, needing to replant is something of a shock.
Plottin’ and schemin’

December 13, 2013

a day in this life

I was at one of the co-ops I use a couple of months ago and they had fresh turmeric in the produce section. I was astounded. I had never seen it fresh before, only ever dried and ground. I was taken aback, to say the least. It looked like dark orange ginger. But I didn’t have any particular idea what I would do with it so I didn’t buy any. But, now I know what kind of plant it is.

A friend of ours commented that his wife had grown ginger this year and I had seen notices about ginger growing workshops in our area, so I know it can be done in this part of the world.

Then, this link popped up on my FaceBook Timeline. http://www.howtogrowstuff.com/how-to-grow-ginger/

It just so happens that I have a couple of large, ornamental flowerpots that aren’t in use and I’m thinking that turmeric will grow the same way ginger does. So, I believe I will plant ginger in one pot and, if I can still find fresh, turmeric in another one.

Reality is false

Tending the orchard

Merry Christmas! Glad Yule! Happy Kwanzaa!

Yule planting

Plottin’ and schemin’