March (of) Time
3/01/07 - 5th Day - After Breakfast. 1st of March. Green grass is sprouting up here and there. Temps have been in the 80's for the last few days, but they are predicting a windy day today and just a bit cooler. Tonight might be our last night of the winter where the temp goes under 32 - the prognosticators are calling for 31 tonight. We've been working the garden and getting ready for planting.
Elsewhere on the ranch, some of the other families are preparing for their first spring here. Gardens are being marked off and fences prepared. The Antes are continuing work on their cabin, and some of the other folks are beginning work on their root cellars. This morning I went on a walk to visit the Sustaires and the Antes and to check on their progress. Things are moving along.
We're also continuing work on a new pig pen area for a couple of our meat hogs. The progress is slow because we work on it based on when we have supplies.
I hadn't been sick since I had a kidney infection in '05, but now I have been sick twice in the first few months of '07. My allergies (cedar allergies!) had not been really bad this year due to the drought last year, but all of a sudden this past week or so they have hit with a vengeance. Cedar season ends this month I think - and I can't wait. Anyway, I got hit by some bug in January, then we had a brutal stomach flu hit the ranch the week before my anniversary, and I got it for 24 hours. Immediately upon recovering from that affliction, the cedar allergies went bezerk, just as the "junk" from the FIRST sickness in January sunk into my chest - giving me a continuous cough now for several weeks; add to that the constant drainage from the allergies, and you have a very fun time.
Anyway, I'm working through it all and doing our herbal remedies and counting it all joy.
I was asked to put together a sermon and record it for the funeral of a friend of BA who died on Monday. The sermon is to be played either at the grave site or at the memorial - I can't remember. Anyway, here is the sermon:
Memorial Sermon: notes on dying
Keep the faith!
Michael Bunker
Elsewhere on the ranch, some of the other families are preparing for their first spring here. Gardens are being marked off and fences prepared. The Antes are continuing work on their cabin, and some of the other folks are beginning work on their root cellars. This morning I went on a walk to visit the Sustaires and the Antes and to check on their progress. Things are moving along.
We're also continuing work on a new pig pen area for a couple of our meat hogs. The progress is slow because we work on it based on when we have supplies.
I hadn't been sick since I had a kidney infection in '05, but now I have been sick twice in the first few months of '07. My allergies (cedar allergies!) had not been really bad this year due to the drought last year, but all of a sudden this past week or so they have hit with a vengeance. Cedar season ends this month I think - and I can't wait. Anyway, I got hit by some bug in January, then we had a brutal stomach flu hit the ranch the week before my anniversary, and I got it for 24 hours. Immediately upon recovering from that affliction, the cedar allergies went bezerk, just as the "junk" from the FIRST sickness in January sunk into my chest - giving me a continuous cough now for several weeks; add to that the constant drainage from the allergies, and you have a very fun time.
Anyway, I'm working through it all and doing our herbal remedies and counting it all joy.
I was asked to put together a sermon and record it for the funeral of a friend of BA who died on Monday. The sermon is to be played either at the grave site or at the memorial - I can't remember. Anyway, here is the sermon:
Memorial Sermon: notes on dying
Keep the faith!
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 3/01/2007 04:39:00 AM
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