Jury duty followup
I left you all
hanging about jury
duty because
they left me hanging too. Monday turns out to have been an
orientation day, after which I'm on call for half the work days
over the next three months. The system seems awkward --- I
have to check a website after 5:30 pm the night before each
potential trial date, and then I'll know whether the relevant
people decided to go to trial or not. According to the
judge, most cases end up being decided without a jury, and the
average juror is asked to serve only two days during that
three-month period.
So I'm back at work
on the farm, feeling unbelievably grateful to have such a
wonderful "work" environment! Chattering with Kayla as we
perk up the mule garden feels more like socializing than like
work, but we still get a lot done.
In case you wanted
something homestead-related in today's post, I've got two
disjointed observations to throw at you. The first has to do
with flowers --- have you ever noticed that the old-fashioned
annuals that are so easy to grow from seed (like the touch-me-nots
in the first photo in this post) attract the most
pollinators? The zinnias I half-heartedly tossed out into
the same flower bed are also drawing in butterflies and bees,
while the irises I was so happy about this spring were largely
ignored by insects.
My second observation
has to do with the peaches in the second photo. These are
the white peaches on our oldest tree, the first of which came down
with brown rot over the weekend. Even though the ground
color looks awfully green, I'm guessing this is the right
stage to pick them if I want to ripen white peaches inside.
Has anyone else had experience with the best time to pick white
peaches for indoors ripening?
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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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