All Things Profane and Sacred

Yep, still alive and doing well. All that cider is doing pretty good too-we drank 7 gallons, have 5 gallons of hard cidar waiting to be bottled and 5 gallons of apple cidar vinegar. Very nice.

Currently working on pruning the apple trees-they're big, beautiful and massively overgrown, which is probably why I don't have any grass in my front lawn. I've been pruning on good weather weekends for the last month, and have a pile of brush as big as a walmart superstore, but I still need to get the bigger branches and stuff that is over 8 feet high. On the upside, I've got rippling shoulder muscles from all the reaching with the pruning shears.

Hopefully once I bring some light in, and with a little help from our compost, we can get some veggies going. This year we're hoping to at least have zucchinis, peas, tomatoes and some herbs. J is builing a food dehydrator with some people from down on the farm, so we'll do our first batch of dried food along with the jam we can from our blackberries and gleaned strawberries.

We're just finishing the last of our frozen blueberries, the jam, alas, is all gone. And I still have damn frozen zucchini-I got lazy and fat with the breadmaking. So next year-more jam, less frozen zucchini (more dried zucchini!). Man oh Man am I glad to see winter leaving again.

I've been burried in the blues at work. My managing attorney has been gone, so it has just been me, the little lonely rural attorney chipping away at my hopeless cases and hopeless causes. I've been trying to feel something for all the newly poor who are just now discovering how much life sucks, but I'm finding it real hard to be sympathetic for those who just discovered that the easy life raking in government benefits is just a figment of Rush Limbaugh's imagination. On the other hand, I have actual job security, at least for the near future, so I'm currently one of the privileged few. Hard to remember that when I had .66 cents in my checking account all last week, but there it is.

Slowly making the damn hell wedding preparations. Got my half of the invitations out. If you haven't recieved one, you're on J's list and you can go ask him where your invite is. Don't call me about it. Acutally, things are going pretty smoothly and are pretty well in order. We've just got a few finishing touches and we'll be set. Thinking happy weather thoughts. And calm blue ocean.