Eating at Home on the First

[errantember]

The first of each month I only eat or drink things I've raised or brewed on my property. This month I was worried, because while my potatoes are going gangbusters, they're definitely nowhere near harvest. I did start mounding up the dirt around the leaves today, though!



I had 5 eggs in reserve, and some very scrubby carrots and tiny sweet potatoes from last month. I also had salt, pepper, and butter that I had previously traded worldmegan kombucha for. I also had kombucha, but it's very *bad* kombucha. I drank some anyway. At least it's fizzy! Here are some shots of my biggest meal. More info and tales of dearth if you click on the pics!

Comments

[worldmegan.livejournal.com]

Dude, the beautiful pictures make your sparsely-fed April 1st look WAY better than it sounded when we talked last night. My first reaction to this post was a tiny spark of envy -- delicious-looking house-made food! I know that's funny, given the gnarliness of the carrots and fewer eggs than expected, but it's still really COOL. ^_^

[errantember.livejournal.com]

It feels really good to eat it. Normally, before I eat, I think about where each item in the meal came from before I do. Often this is a frustrating and very theoretical exercise that delays getting food in my hungry tummy, but not on the first!

[worldmegan.livejournal.com]

Also: Have you considered making MoebiusTrip a site about app creation in your permaculture context, sort of a digital-and-non-digital, a dynamic duo? Done properly, it might create the PERFECT niche for you -- and then these posts could go there as well. I think people would love the 1-day-a-month experiment, majorly. Can discuss more later if sounds interesting!

[errantember.livejournal.com]

I'm intending to have a separate blog site for Flagship Suburbia, and somehow cross-link the interrelated posts. MoebiusTrip is largely about culture jamming and educating people about propaganda, so there's some overlap, but not enough to completely unify the sites yet.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

I envy your potatoes, mine are DEF not looking anything like that. hmmm....

On the other hand...dude, that's not much food, and I don't think those are dandelions. Looks like thistle of some variety. I have them too.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle

and here: http://plainoldkristi.blogspot.com/2009/03/eating-thistles.html

good news: they are edible. :P

[errantember.livejournal.com]

I've also been watering my potatoes thoroughly about two hours before dusk every day.

When I've seen a side-by-side comparison in my yard, I became aware that this was different from a dandelion. One thing that's happened, though, is that dandelions don't really grow in my yard anymore. It's probably partially because of the drought, but I think it's also because leaving my lawn mostly alone, and only cutting when I really have to, has improved my soil to a point where dandelions don't like it anymore.

I used to get slews in my backyard, but between the chickens and Louie, the backyard is basically noting but bare dirt right now. That might change if we finally get some rain.

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Also, you had mentioned not wanting me to cross-post my replies to your entries from LJ to Facebook. Is that only certain kinds of entries, or any entries? Normally I'm cross-posting now, but I want to exclude whatever you don't want on Facebook.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

I don't like it when people crosspost replies to my entries, because that means links to my entries go up on facebooks whose friends list I'm not in charge of. Which means I don't mind you crossposting replies on YOUR journal, or even on the garden ladies journal, but don't want replies on my private journal and sexy journal linked to facebook.

Make sense? :)

[errantember.livejournal.com]

I think that's clear. The literal interpretation is that if you post it on my LJ, it's ok to cross-post replies to FB. The spirit of the idea is that it's ok to share less stigmatized, more fluff stuff on FB, but not the heavier/more private stuff.

Is that right?

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

well, sort of. It's more about my garden ladies journal is public, and I post accordingly. gailmom and sexy journal entries are more exclusive, because I want to know who is reading most of those. So the spirit of the idea is your info is yours to share, my info is mine. If you crosspost a reply to a private journal on YOUR facebook, all your friends list sees it...that's mine to share dammit. and I have no control over your facebook.

it would be like posting your response to a private email message from me publicly...but not removing my name from it.

is that clearer?

it have less to do with "fluff/heavy" and more to do with "public domain/private domain"

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Ok, so no crossposting of stuff on your private journals. That seems simple enough.