Night is for writing
Jan. 1st, 2010 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstorm...and quiet.
I didn't go out for New Years last night, despite having a pretty fantastic concert lined up. I needed some quiet and some time to myself, and I need to not be up late every evening. Selfishness, self-care, who knows what to call it?
I've been updating my webpage some today, lazing around, and noticing how fleeting my American accent is when I'm once more surrounded by home. I even got down to the gym this evening -- I never go to the gym in the evening, but I'm going to try to wrench my schedule a little so I can actually hang out with people this month (since no one is willing to wake up early to hang out with me, bah!) and I think evening exercise might be part of that. I still won't be up past 11 for anyone.
I was just going to write about the super awesome Lady Luck babies I've got on the go right now, and how they make the most distractingly cute squeaks when their mom cleans them. Her schedule is like clockwork. Then I glanced over and saw that Popcorn might be having contractions, far apart still but there are some distinctive ripples and she looks like she's concentrating in between micronapping and yawns. It may just be hope and/or imagination. Everyone else is going crazy with barchewing and scuffling.
Today hasn't been an easy day for me. Angus has been both sick and in the midst of finally clearing his stuff out so I can get the rats in here, and so our little space isn't very useable and we're both crabby (blood day should be coming up pretty soon for me). Additionally I'm such a creature of routine that, lovely as the trip was, settling back to a different pattern isn't easy for me. Oh well, you can't say it wasn't overdue. I usually rely on him to break the slightly prickly silences that spring up so quickly around me, but he's not up to the job, and now he's asleep, and I'm tired.
Maybe I'm just seeing the babies moving around and not actual contractions? There's definitely odd movement going on there.
The rat rescue has just got in three wild Norwegian rats, tamed since they were babies and so not particularly fit to be released into the wild. I am so tempted, but we have zero space right now and I haven't got the time or attention to give to critters like that. Cinderella and Fang are more than enough for me.
I learned the other day that, well, this was on craigslist:
Fresh Roots has space to offer 2 more backyards the opportunity to be a part of our city csa project. Do you have an unattended yard interested in transforming into an abundantly diverse edible food and flower garden? If yes - read below!
Fresh Roots creates access to local, healthy, sustainably grown food in East Vancouver. Utilizing locally available backyards, we connect growers and consumers to create an efficient, productive urban food system that stewards city land and offers educational opportunities for all involved.
Essentially, we are growing food in our neighborhood for our neighborhood!
Based off the community supported agriculture (CSA) model, East Vancouver residents will have the opportunity to buy a weekly share of freshly harvested veggies grown in their neighbor's backyard.
As local as it comes - We plant delicious varieties of produce and believe in offering our community almost zero carbon emissions food, freshly harvested, grown with East Van love, East Van compost, by local East Van farmers.
Currently, we are able to offer your backyard the opportunity to get involved. Do you have an unattended yard interested in transforming into an abundantly diverse edible food and flower garden? Let us garden your yard for you! You get
- A beautifully maintained garden full of edible foods and flowers
- A fresh, weekly harvest from the CSA
- An educational opportunity fit to your schedule (optional)
We grow lots of food in small spaces in the traditional permaculture manner. Instead of farm rows, your garden will be abundantly diverse and aesthetically pleasing.
if you support
- local, organic agriculture
- keeping money in the local economy
- knowing where your food grows
and the people growing it!
- eating healthier meals
- connecting to the seasons through food
- partnering with your farmer
- being a part of creating equal access to healthy, safe, affordable food!
join us this upcoming 2010 growing season!
if you have a yard and are interested - contact us! freshrootsurbancsa(at)gmail.com
...wow. It's happening, and I don't need to do it. That isn't me, it's someone else. That's crazy. It's wonderful, and it's weird. Who are these people who do this stuff in my city, who I never can get in contact with or meet? It's proof that if you sit around twiddling your fingers long enough something sometimes will start to fix itself without your help.
Maybe I really can run away and do canopy science now.
...
yeah, that'd be _nice_. I'd miss the rats though.
I didn't go out for New Years last night, despite having a pretty fantastic concert lined up. I needed some quiet and some time to myself, and I need to not be up late every evening. Selfishness, self-care, who knows what to call it?
I've been updating my webpage some today, lazing around, and noticing how fleeting my American accent is when I'm once more surrounded by home. I even got down to the gym this evening -- I never go to the gym in the evening, but I'm going to try to wrench my schedule a little so I can actually hang out with people this month (since no one is willing to wake up early to hang out with me, bah!) and I think evening exercise might be part of that. I still won't be up past 11 for anyone.
I was just going to write about the super awesome Lady Luck babies I've got on the go right now, and how they make the most distractingly cute squeaks when their mom cleans them. Her schedule is like clockwork. Then I glanced over and saw that Popcorn might be having contractions, far apart still but there are some distinctive ripples and she looks like she's concentrating in between micronapping and yawns. It may just be hope and/or imagination. Everyone else is going crazy with barchewing and scuffling.
Today hasn't been an easy day for me. Angus has been both sick and in the midst of finally clearing his stuff out so I can get the rats in here, and so our little space isn't very useable and we're both crabby (blood day should be coming up pretty soon for me). Additionally I'm such a creature of routine that, lovely as the trip was, settling back to a different pattern isn't easy for me. Oh well, you can't say it wasn't overdue. I usually rely on him to break the slightly prickly silences that spring up so quickly around me, but he's not up to the job, and now he's asleep, and I'm tired.
Maybe I'm just seeing the babies moving around and not actual contractions? There's definitely odd movement going on there.
The rat rescue has just got in three wild Norwegian rats, tamed since they were babies and so not particularly fit to be released into the wild. I am so tempted, but we have zero space right now and I haven't got the time or attention to give to critters like that. Cinderella and Fang are more than enough for me.
I learned the other day that, well, this was on craigslist:
Fresh Roots has space to offer 2 more backyards the opportunity to be a part of our city csa project. Do you have an unattended yard interested in transforming into an abundantly diverse edible food and flower garden? If yes - read below!
Fresh Roots creates access to local, healthy, sustainably grown food in East Vancouver. Utilizing locally available backyards, we connect growers and consumers to create an efficient, productive urban food system that stewards city land and offers educational opportunities for all involved.
Essentially, we are growing food in our neighborhood for our neighborhood!
Based off the community supported agriculture (CSA) model, East Vancouver residents will have the opportunity to buy a weekly share of freshly harvested veggies grown in their neighbor's backyard.
As local as it comes - We plant delicious varieties of produce and believe in offering our community almost zero carbon emissions food, freshly harvested, grown with East Van love, East Van compost, by local East Van farmers.
Currently, we are able to offer your backyard the opportunity to get involved. Do you have an unattended yard interested in transforming into an abundantly diverse edible food and flower garden? Let us garden your yard for you! You get
- A beautifully maintained garden full of edible foods and flowers
- A fresh, weekly harvest from the CSA
- An educational opportunity fit to your schedule (optional)
We grow lots of food in small spaces in the traditional permaculture manner. Instead of farm rows, your garden will be abundantly diverse and aesthetically pleasing.
if you support
- local, organic agriculture
- keeping money in the local economy
- knowing where your food grows
and the people growing it!
- eating healthier meals
- connecting to the seasons through food
- partnering with your farmer
- being a part of creating equal access to healthy, safe, affordable food!
join us this upcoming 2010 growing season!
if you have a yard and are interested - contact us! freshrootsurbancsa(at)gmail.com
...wow. It's happening, and I don't need to do it. That isn't me, it's someone else. That's crazy. It's wonderful, and it's weird. Who are these people who do this stuff in my city, who I never can get in contact with or meet? It's proof that if you sit around twiddling your fingers long enough something sometimes will start to fix itself without your help.
Maybe I really can run away and do canopy science now.
...
yeah, that'd be _nice_. I'd miss the rats though.
