David Hare-Scott wrote:
songbird wrote:

lovely weather lately, sunshine, mid 60s-70s most of the
time.


After almost the warmest winter on record I am getting hot inland winds,
unseasonable high temperatures and no rain now for over three months. The
ground is so hard I cannot push in a pig-tailed picket.

i sure hope you'll get some decent rains soon.


that's about it for news on the gardens, in recent readings
i've continued the Biosphere 2 theme and have enjoyed the
various perspectives from the different authors. i have been
reading them in order of publication date the most recent
was _Dreaming the Biosphe the Theatre of All Possibilities_
by Rebecca Reider.


I've been reading the history of the valley where I live. I discovered
(among many things) that we had a gold rush in the late 1800s that
multiplied the population by a factor of 6 or more and was gone in a few
years. They built a whole township including eight pubs (there are only two
in town today) but there is nothing to be seen on the site now.

not that much of a deposit for them to continue if it
only went a few years... sedimentary?

around here the history is mostly natives, logging,
and coal mines (underground seams). not much sign of
any of that either on the surface. forests reclaim
land fairly quickly around here.


oh, yes, we've finished the canning for the season. plenty
of tomatoes stocked up again and some apple sauce and pickled
beets.

whatchu been upto?


With great regret I have to stop cutting the asparagus Not long now
for globe artichokes

with it being so dry did you manage much of an
asparagus harvest?


I spend my days dragging round hoses and irrigating to try to get some kind
of spring growth on my orchard and gardens. At least the river is still
running and I can pump from it. The big subterranean sponge is just about
dry, another month of this and my horses will be very hungry. But by then I
could be complaining about the mud......

good luck with the rains, i sure hope you'll get some
before too long.


songbird