What's Sexier Than Sustainable Farming?
Jul. 15th, 2020 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpegghost It's Alex's birthday!
I let him sleep in today (usually I'm in his face at 9 AM, being someone that wakes up at 7-8 AM), and when we finally got to breakfast it was Voodoo Donuts! I shoved the bacon maple in my face at light speed and groggily slouched around for 30 minutes because it was too much sugar but it was so GOOD.
After working out we went out to a Japanese bookstore that had all kinds of cool stuff. Penpal friends, I finally got some stationary so expect something ... ... Soon!
I got him a shiba toy and he got himself a Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice art book which is from some videogame series he likes. We then went to the Container Store cause sure, why not, and envisioned all the organizing in our house. Ooo, ahhh. Pull out drawers and cabinet organizers ...
Right now we are taking a break to do things (I have some school to work on), but I'm also working on drawing him a birthday card. He draws me a card for each of our monthly anniversaries, which is always on the 13th (which seems very on brand for me). The least I can do is draw him a birthday card. I'll take a picture later of it.
In other news, I found our county's agricultural extension office and am balls deep in all the sustainable farming and plant care classes in it. If it wasn't for Covid, they'd be having free classes at the libraries 'round here every Thursday, but since we have a pandemic that has become politicized, it's all online. I signed up for a course on Fall Garden Preparation on the 23rd with Friend Chelsea and I'm honestly so excited, you guys have no idea. FALL GARDEN PREPARATION!!! Spaghetti Squash! Acorn squash! Pumpkins! Uh -- Other things!
It does make me sad, though. While it is USDA funded, just a little, the Department of Agriculture has been so hacked and slashed since the Reagan era that our extension office struggles and has to be college funded by Texas A&M University. I was going through archive.org (as I am wont to do) and found radio transcripts of "Homemaker's Chat", a radio program founded by the Department of Agriculture in the first half of the 1900s. Some of the information is so useful. For instance, Christmas decorating on a budget and healthy snacks. It's too bad that we have slashed all our public work offices to bare bones just to militarize our police departments. SIGH.
Anyways I may post notes from my sexy sustainable gardening class if you guys are so interested. I feel like it'll be pretty straightforward -- Or will it?
I let him sleep in today (usually I'm in his face at 9 AM, being someone that wakes up at 7-8 AM), and when we finally got to breakfast it was Voodoo Donuts! I shoved the bacon maple in my face at light speed and groggily slouched around for 30 minutes because it was too much sugar but it was so GOOD.
After working out we went out to a Japanese bookstore that had all kinds of cool stuff. Penpal friends, I finally got some stationary so expect something ... ... Soon!
I got him a shiba toy and he got himself a Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice art book which is from some videogame series he likes. We then went to the Container Store cause sure, why not, and envisioned all the organizing in our house. Ooo, ahhh. Pull out drawers and cabinet organizers ...
Right now we are taking a break to do things (I have some school to work on), but I'm also working on drawing him a birthday card. He draws me a card for each of our monthly anniversaries, which is always on the 13th (which seems very on brand for me). The least I can do is draw him a birthday card. I'll take a picture later of it.
In other news, I found our county's agricultural extension office and am balls deep in all the sustainable farming and plant care classes in it. If it wasn't for Covid, they'd be having free classes at the libraries 'round here every Thursday, but since we have a pandemic that has become politicized, it's all online. I signed up for a course on Fall Garden Preparation on the 23rd with Friend Chelsea and I'm honestly so excited, you guys have no idea. FALL GARDEN PREPARATION!!! Spaghetti Squash! Acorn squash! Pumpkins! Uh -- Other things!
It does make me sad, though. While it is USDA funded, just a little, the Department of Agriculture has been so hacked and slashed since the Reagan era that our extension office struggles and has to be college funded by Texas A&M University. I was going through archive.org (as I am wont to do) and found radio transcripts of "Homemaker's Chat", a radio program founded by the Department of Agriculture in the first half of the 1900s. Some of the information is so useful. For instance, Christmas decorating on a budget and healthy snacks. It's too bad that we have slashed all our public work offices to bare bones just to militarize our police departments. SIGH.
Anyways I may post notes from my sexy sustainable gardening class if you guys are so interested. I feel like it'll be pretty straightforward -- Or will it?
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Date: 2020-07-16 11:13 am (UTC)And sustainable gardening classes are awesome. It sucks so much that the budgets for the Extension offices keep getting cut.
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Date: 2020-07-16 11:37 pm (UTC)Yeah they're SLASHED. I wish I knew where to donate, I've been looking all over their site...