Flurries

No it hasn't started snowing here yet, but here at our place there have been weekly flurries.  You see, when we are in our work week at the great Mammoth Cave, though we come home now every evening, nothing is accomplished.  Those days go like this:  Get up ridiculously early, yoga, quick look online, breakfast, make lunch, go to work for 8 hours, come home, eat supper, talk or watch something light, go to bed.  Rinse and repeat.  On a particularly energetic morning I might manage to wash up a few dishes.

But then come our four day weekends!  We are working so hard on our weekends that working at Mammoth Cave is like a vacation!  Here are a couple of the projects we have been working on in our "off" time:

Getting Close to Closing Time

It's been a lovely Tuesday!


The last couple of nights have been pretty chilly.  Thankfully it didn't frost though, we definitely weren't ready for that!  The coolness has spurred us into action and today was spent readying for the fall.

So Many Questions!

This post is primarily for those of you who are looking to start a little bit of gardening, but who are not in a rural setting like mine.  You may have a patio or tiny yard and you may be renting, so plowing up your allotted bit lawn is out of the question.  In what ways might a person in this situation set up a winter garden or any kind of garden for that matter?

Celery and Food Security

Last week at the grocery store I heard a woman exclaim about the price of celery, "That's ridiculous!  I would NEVER pay that much for celery!"  I looked at the celery and it was about $1.39 per bunch.  A decidedly high price, to be sure.  Her words remained with me throughout this past week, as I wondered what she will do as the price of not only celery but all of the other food in the grocery store continues to climb to more and more seemingly ridiculous heights.  And I was brought once again to the concept of Food Security.

Growth

This might be my best January ever!  I have alluded to it before, but it just keeps coming back to me.  Typically, when January comes, I am struggling with depression.  It's perfectly understandable why this is.  The holidays and all of their joys and stresses are over.  Where I live there is generally no snow, just lots of gray drippiness.  There are always so many projects, but no money or energy to complete them.  So negativity builds upon negativity until I just don't want to do anything any more.

This year is different.  Has the post-holiday void gone away?  No. Is there lots of beautiful snow?  No. Is it gray and drippy?  Yes.  Do we have tons of money to work on our place?  No.  So why am I not depressed?  What do I have to live for?