June 27, 2010
light and variable winds, scattered clouds
I'm feeling dispirited lately, lost. I really don't know what I'm looking for anymore.
June 26, 2010
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June 16, 2010
tepary beans
These would pass for pebbles if not for the little red circles around the blowholes. This is probably two-thirds of this year's total harvest - there are a few more coming along still. The beans did better than the peas, though. With these I got back about twice the number I planted, but only about half with the peas.
My Native American food book says the desert people preferred these to other beans, because when you eat tepary beans, you only have to eat twice a day, but when you eat ordinary beans, you have to eat three times.
June 15, 2010
the visitor dun dun dunnnhhhh
An armadillo dug up all of our tepary beans; it shoved the chicken-wire fence frame to the side and dove right in. Probably looking for grubs. That's OK. The beans weren't doing too well. We got enough of them to re-plant next year, but not enough to make a meal of 'em. (They're awfully pretty beans - tan with a bright, thin red outline around the whaddayacallit, bean-hole.)
June 13, 2010
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June 6, 2010
June 1, 2010
nobody here but us bushes
Garden ornament self-camouflage. Always up to somethin', these. Gotta watch 'em.
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