Fava beans and fleece

I cleaned up our side ‘yard’ today and planted peas and fava beans (mostly hoping to improve the soil).  I’d already planted some peas and fava beans in the rooftop earthboxes as well.  The tomatoes are nearly done, as is our bellpepper (I...

Solar Panels

Well, they’re up, but there’s still a few more inspections etc to go before they’re running. More views on flickr. Other stuff that happened Friday: The oleanders are finally gone!  We planted two Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’, one Ceanothus...

Alpaca Daze

We’re going to see alpacas Saturday!  Despite my best attempts at convincing other friends to come along (i.e. bribes of lots of winetasting), it’s just going to be me and Dave this weekend, heading up to Santa Ynez for the day. For alpacas, I’m...

ThisClose….

….to letting myself cast on for a new project. I’ve finished one of the WIPs (handspun hat) and should finish Flutterby this morning (or at least have it blocking by lunch time, which, to me, counts as finished). Pics to follow. I know, that only adds up...