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Kala
Lovin' The Homestead
Thanks guys 
I found this in some of my reading tonight and really liked it so I thought I'd share.
To look at anything,
If you must know that thng,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say "I have seen spring in these woods" will not do-you must be the thing you see:
You must be the dark snakes of stems and ferny plums of leaves,
You must enter in to the small silences between the leaves,
You must take you time and touch the very peace they issue from within.
~John Moffitt
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
~Anatole France
But what do you do if there isn't anything good in their heads??
Started a batch of vanilla a few days ago. And so far it's smelling right! Not that I could screw this up too easily, it's almost fool proof. After I ruined a few batches of yogurt I thought I'd better try something I couldn't screw up. Anyone else done their own vanilla before?
When I told someone at work what I was doing they got the strangest look on their face and said, "You can do that?!" And I can't blame them! That's what I would have said not too long ago! Isn't it crazy how disconnected we can get from our own food supply and our ability to create it? Suddenly everything just magically shows up on the grocery shelf and that's where our thought process ends.
There's nothing like walking through the woods (for grazing) with the animal that provides you with milk or seeing those first sprouts in the garden.
Ahhhhh, I'm so glad we moved out here.
I found this in some of my reading tonight and really liked it so I thought I'd share.
To look at anything,
If you must know that thng,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say "I have seen spring in these woods" will not do-you must be the thing you see:
You must be the dark snakes of stems and ferny plums of leaves,
You must enter in to the small silences between the leaves,
You must take you time and touch the very peace they issue from within.
~John Moffitt
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
~Anatole France
But what do you do if there isn't anything good in their heads??
Started a batch of vanilla a few days ago. And so far it's smelling right! Not that I could screw this up too easily, it's almost fool proof. After I ruined a few batches of yogurt I thought I'd better try something I couldn't screw up.
Anyone else done their own vanilla before? When I told someone at work what I was doing they got the strangest look on their face and said, "You can do that?!" And I can't blame them! That's what I would have said not too long ago! Isn't it crazy how disconnected we can get from our own food supply and our ability to create it? Suddenly everything just magically shows up on the grocery shelf and that's where our thought process ends.
There's nothing like walking through the woods (for grazing) with the animal that provides you with milk or seeing those first sprouts in the garden.
Ahhhhh, I'm so glad we moved out here.
..... and we can't think of anything to go do. We thought about going to Amish country but it takes so long to get there that it makes a day trip kind of a hassle and we're both too cheap to pay for a hotel. Plus we'd have to get someone to come over and feed and milk the critters. Otherewise we'd probably go there. 
