Spring is Sprunging


Slowly, and in fits and starts, the weather is turning. We're still getting snow showers and threats of inches of the stuff, but at the same time, the grass in sunny places is starting to green up. Daffodils are popping up, as are tulips. Time to get some maintenance accomplished and some things in the ground.

Today, I put arugula, spinach, and carrots in the ground. Next weekend, or the weekend after, the snow peas will need to go in. Hence I did some maintenance on the trellis (which was somewhat the worse for wear after last year. 

Is there anything that you can't fix with zip ties and chicken wire? 

Another outdoor task was to clean up a lot of the tarps that were sort of strewn around the patio after a winter of covering wood, which has now been burned. 

Eggplant, two kinds of peppers, and tomatoes are humming along nicely in the greenhouse. 

State of the world is terrible, as expected. The geniuses in D.C. decided that masked fascist white supremacist goon squads attacking our innocent neighbors was not enough violence, so they had to start a murderous illegal war along with their Zionist scum allies in apartheid Israel on Iran.

This, of course, is going to have consequences that they may have thought of, as their base of oil executives and billionaires are getting richer, having driven up the cost of petroleum. Follow-on effects will include fertilizer costs skyrocketing, avoidable famine, economic hardship for most of the world. 

But, war criminals gotta war criminal, I guess. It's par for the golf course.

The point, as far as this blog goes, is this: it's good to be a little bit insulated by seeking a little bit of self-reliance. Obviously, nobody on earth can be completely unaffected. But it certainly doesn't hurt to heat with wood and get 80% of our power from our solar panels (which includes powering the Nissan Leaf completely, and the first 32 miles of the Pacifica plug-in hybrid every time we go out, yielding about 60 mpg around town). 

Growing some of our own food will help as well.  



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