No Podcast Today
As we announced last week, Amanda is in California and I in Alabama. If I were a real man, perhaps I could figure out how we could do a podcast together over the telephone. Alas, I fall short.
As we announced last week, Amanda is in California and I in Alabama. If I were a real man, perhaps I could figure out how we could do a podcast together over the telephone. Alas, I fall short.
It’s important to Amanda and me to keep what we call our “Core Campus” compact. We are planning for a day in the not-too-distant future when fossil fuels will be pricier if available at all, so we need to be able to walk easily around the core campus to enjoy […]
We’ve been planning it for two years and building it for one; now we’re finally ready to say the lodge is (about) ready.
It’s hot, it’s humid, and the air conditioners are working overtime all over America.
We knew that as soon as we cleared the section of land on either side of the driveway for parking, we needed to get some grass planted on it.
Amanda started hauling in baskets full of food from Veg Hill within weeks after we started our first garden, but we’ve had to be more patient with the fruit trees that are my domain.
Our friend Jean needed raised beds, so Amanda volunteered to build them if Jean would agree to be our featured “talent.”
We were honored and delighted to serve Tuesday as the program presenters for the Central Alabama Master Gardeners Association, talking about our work to design more self-sufficiency into our lives here at Longleaf Breeze.
It’s amazing how fast your life can turn on you. Ours changed in an instant Friday afternoon when a freak fall while water-skiing damaged the nerve serving Lee’s left arm. We learned just today that the nerve is not torn (the medical term is “avulced”) so now we are brimming […]
We’re entering into our “second summer” here in central Alabama, the portion of the summer during which nearly everything tends to slow down on Veg Hill – everything, that is, except the okra. Thank God for okra: it loves this heat the way the rest of us love ice cream.