Book Notes
I just finished reading Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Easy read. Very funny "end of the world" story. Angels and Demons and the Antichrist, age 11, refuses the job.
Lately, I am obsessed with learning how to garden. Actually, I have been struggling with a garden drowning in feral fennel and saplings that keep springing up from rootballs yet to be dug up. My peppers and my tomatoes are growing like mad and my little onions seem to be doing well...although I don't know when to pick them. I also collected my rhubarb seed and i'm gonna plant a few and let them grow in pots all summer and see if they spring up true to their parents.
I read Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. That started my new obsession. So I have been reading about square foot gardening, gardening design, how to grow veggies and collect seed, sustainable agriculture, etc. My goal is to re-configure the back garden so I can grow winter squash and pole beans and maybe even (one day) corn.
I've also been reading about chickens. I think I want a few. Right now I think I will probably get a Faverolle (probably a Salmon Faverolle as they are most common here), a Partridge or Barred Plymouth Rock, and if I can find one: a Cuckoo Maran. Now I need to wait for the county fair to go check out the local chickens and ask a TON of questions from people who raise them. I do NOT want a rooster as my neighbors would string me up...but hens are fairly quiet...I'm sure they'd make less noise than the 24 hr barking dog next door.
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