Today was such a beautiful day.  My husband gave me for Valentine's day a Crape Myrtle and a Pear Tree.  I decided to plant them today and take advantage of the beautiful day and the rain that is about to come this weekend.  I didn't realize our yard had so many rocks!!  After two hours of pick axing and waking up the baby, the trees are in!!!!   Now lets hope they do well.   I mixed good soil with the soil I dug up from the hole and took most of the rocks out of the way, added native mulch and watered.   I've learned from experience th

I sat outside last night and watched the reflection of the sun go down on the building across the street from my apartment complex.  It has been cold in Austin this year, but last night I only had on a sweater.  The sun went down and looking at my watch, I noticed the late hour.  Winter actually showed up this year in Texas, folks, but she looks like she's ready to pay her tab and leave the bar.   I talked to farmer Jill Allford yesterday.  She was busy planting tomato seeds in her greenhouse when I called.  This round of tomatoes was for her neighbors, she explained, because she'd already planted her own seeds the previous week.  Gee whiz, I thought! It's only January ... January ... 30th?  How'd that happen? 

In the middle of the dog days of this past summer, I went up to visit my dear friend Jill Allford in North Austin. It seemed like everywhere I looked there were sad looking tomatoes and people praying for rain - or even just a little bit of shade. Jill has a green thumb a mile wide - with a thriving landscape company called Taproot Landscapes to prove it - so, I guess that I shouldn’t have been surprised that her tomatoes looked like they’d been vacationing in temperate California for the first part of the season.

I got into drinking kombucha when I discovered that I had acquired an overgrowth of candida after taking a round of antibiotics. (Candida is a whole other blog post - google it. Your doctor will look at you like you're bananas if you ask him about it, but do yourself a favor and take some acidophiles and drink some kombucha after you take a round of antibiotics.) Kombucha is a special drink.

This is what the American Cancer Society web page has to say about kombucha:

We rolled out of Santa Fe around one on Saturday. All of us were exhausted and inspired and processing the loads of information and ideas that we had just been fed. One of the guys had a friend in Taos that lived a planned community of Earthships. He had offered to give us a tour. I was a little confused when the idea was first tossed out - an Earthship? In New Mexico? Huh?

"Food is the field in which we daily explore our harmony with the world."