2010 cruise adventure
Last
year's honeymoon
cruise to the Yucatan
exceeded my wildest
expectations, so we decided we had to give it another shot, but a
little later in the year once the garden was sound asleep. This
evening, we'll be taking the train south, then jumping aboard a cruise
ship to drift through the Gulf of Mexico, explore Mayan ruins, and
experience a Mayan steam lodge. So, for all of those people who
would usually call me on my birthday, please send me an email instead
--- I'll be away from the phone and having a blast!
One of our readers ---
Shannon --- kindly offered to mind the homestead
while we're sunning ourselves in Mexico, and once I learned the sheer
quantity of firepower he possesses, we couldn't turn him down.
Mark felt better about me announcing to the world that we'd be away
from home once he saw Shannon's arsenal. Don't have a heart
attack, Mom, he's a nice guy despite the guns! Single female
readers, Shannon is available and a very hearty woodchopper --- very
good farm-husband material.
The real point of this post
(there's a point?) is to let you know that
our internet access will be spotty over the next week and a half, so
your comments might languish for a while in moderation. We've
saved up a bunch of fun posts to tide you over until we return to the
homestead, but my crontab syntax needs a bit of work, and there's a
chance my auto-posts just won't go through --- I apologize in advance
if you have to go a day without the Walden Effect. Please do keep
commenting as usual --- I love coming home to tidbits of information
from our loyal readers. Have a great solstice!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Aww... you didn't tell me your birthday was coming up. I would have definitely made more of an effort to gather some oak leaf mulch before I came up here.
Y'all have fun now, and thanks again for the hospitality.
Shannon --- your presence is very much presents enough! Although, for future reference, I never turn down biomass.
Thanks so much for keeping the farm happy and healthy in our absence.
Dawnofrisingsun ---
Everett --- Thanks! We already are --- on the train in Alabama at the moment, watching trees out the window. (Well, I'm watching trees. Mark seems more interested in fauna.)