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Wow. I am now an official blogger. Can I just say that I am very happy that the font that the template graphics for my blog put my name in is copperplate gothic? It's perfect.

So this is the unofficial Concho Valley Sandbar CSA blog, and the unofficial Ariel blog as well. So I'll try to keep personal ramblings short unless they have some merit or explanation to why I'm so crazy and do what I do.

Yesterday I got garlic and onions in the ground. By the biodynamic calendar it is a root day until tomorrow. I also finally transplanted the fig trees that Shannon/Cardo's Farm gave me. Very exciting! I'm just praying the little guys make it, they seemed a little sad. Today I want to get turnips, beets, carrots, and radishes in the ground as well. We have some beds that we created at the bioregional conference in mid september so now I'm going through and filling them in.

Ah...coffee. I went and got an electric skillet yesterday at Target...I feel like such a consumer...but at the same time it totally rocks in my little cottage! Just what I needed. Now when I wake up at 5am I have motivation to get up: start some water boiling, break out some Brazilian coffee, bust out the mortar and pestle and start grinding...an excellent ritual to start the day. Ah...so good.

Just brought the cats down and I found out that I have a cat allergy! I always lived with cats so I never knew! Since that's the only thing that really changed since before my last trip then it must be so...unless I have a desktop computer allergy...yea. Didn't think so. Turmeric has been recommended to me before and it seemed to help after it got in my system a couple years ago...and then I just wasn't rigorous with it. Now I know how clean sinuses feel and will have to start the treatment again. Any other ideas or tips welcome.

I also got a call from Karen from Raw Spirit Fest yesterday while at Target! Woohoo Trash Cats! I saw some people sorting recycling and compost from the trash once while visiting the porta-loos and I decided to ask if they needed help. 7 to 10 hours that weekend preceded to go towards helping those peeps out, and made some great friends doing it! Hey all you Rawsome Peoples! As I drink my coffee...ah it's soooo good. 6:40am and the horizon is just barely lighting up. It's crazy how fast time flies and how the days get so much shorter so much more quickly.

I love my cats though, and they seem to dig it here. I was here about 12 hours or so before I left the door open for them to check it out. Most people say leave your cats in for a few days so they know where their new home is. I think it helped that I took a lot of things before I took them and ruffled the place in a little bit. Storpo went right up into the rafters of my box spring. Astra is doing well too, she/he keeps wanting food and I just give it to her until she fattens up. Food is medicine, fundamentally. I work under the pretense of humans having a lot of latent potential, so the following is based on this: I also kept sending the image of the property and of the idea of living on that property to both my cats, and their attitude seemed to be that of acceptance while still in Denton. I went about a month ago and wanted to take my cats but it didn't work out, I ended up packing the kitty tranks in the truck and realized it after i strapped my bed down. Oops. Ended up working out great (referring to the fact I got to establish the space I live in down here as mine), except the cats seemed a little miffed they were left behind, especially when I got back up there. But they are doing great now.

So! Enough about the cats, though having them here as well as the uber computer station I've been working on over the past few years really makes this little cottage feel like home. I'll post some pictures as soon as I have a decent means of taking them and downloading them onto the computer. My little phone just isn't quite snazzy enough to make that process easy. Though I do want to get a google phone and compare it to Andy and Robby's Iphones, which seem to me like they totally blow! *Ahem* Yes. Well. Indeed.

So last thing, but very cool. Check this link out

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/dining/08verm.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&em

This is so exciting and inspiring! This is exactly what we're looking to create down here in San Angelo. A huge network of community that supports itself. Though we're going to need gas prices to get a little higher before a whole lot of people will get on board, but I don't think we'll be disappointed. Thanks Devin for giving me this article! I think it might be prudent to visit Vermont and try their apple pie... mmm...homer drool sound...