Food

Garden Watered and Fooding

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Laura

My husband and I carried in 100 litres of water from our neighbour’s house today. Thankfully they are good to us and our garden. I hope I can produce enough that I can bring some stuff up to them!

Finally we saw a tiny bit of benefit to all this water carrying. We picked to make a little pasta sauce. A few good sized tomatoes, a green pepper, lots of basil and flat parsley. I added salt, oil, garlic, gnocchi and a good beer (my favourite kind) on the side.

Since we returned with all this to Hamilton from THO, it is not really a zero mile diet, not even close but the sauce was great and so too was the cold beer!

I will be in Hamilton until Sunday so I will catch up on my posts I hope!

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Heat

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Laura

Last night I ran away from the hot and sticky THO and spent the night at my friend Liisa’s and I am also spending the night here now. Thanks Liisa!

I left Liisa’s first thing in the morning and spent the day at THO working on my writing. When the heat became too much I drove Baby back to Battersea Village and sat at The Creek and wrote in the air-conditioning. I find it a pretty good place to work. I stayed there until the server let us know that there was a severe weather warning in place. The bad weather never came, either did the rain.

The poor garden is so pathetic looking.

My farmer friends are really worried about their crops and I worry too because I think that with the drought being so widespread, the cost of food is sure to increase.

Update on the subject of food cost was on the news today (July 18), here is the link

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Tiny House Amputees

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Laura

Rudigrrr Wolf has found a new favourite thing to do at THO. The “hobby” is to play with, amputate and eat the legs from the daddy long legs (Opiliones) spiders that hunt there.

We have dozens of amputees in the cloth porch now.

I think that the spiders do not allow this to happen without a fight. The consequence for Rudigrrrr is that he has swollen glands so he went to Hamilton with Big Papa Wolf to get checked out by the vet.

Any suggestions on how to deter Rudigrrr from hunting spiders?

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Pole Beans

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Laura

Today has pretty much consisted of sweating, whining about the heat, playing a little Skip-O, but we relented and finally got off our chairs for a few minutes.

We put up a bit of fence for the pole beans to climb. Not too much work. We used about 5 feet of left over fence, two barely used boards, c-fencing nails and six screws to attach them to the base of the raised bed. Took about ten minutes but made us sweat like hell.

I hope the beans don’t think that it is too hot to climb.

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All Wet!

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Laura

Hj and I carried in 100 litres of water for the garden yesterday. We are fortunate to have neighbours who are kind to us because we do not yet have a well on our land.

Today the garden looks really good again!

Hj, also did a bit of clearing nearby so that we can get the solar panels set up there next week.