Dear Folks: September 24, 2000
Dear Folks,
Sunday morning, rainy and dreary, everyone is inside coughing and wheezing. I brought back a bug from Balaton and promptly passed it to my dear housemates. The place sounds like a tuberculosis ward. Ah, community! Togetherness in suffering!
It’s the equinox, days suddenly, strikingly shorter. Not light enough to open the chickenhouse (which is how I measure my days) until [...]
Dear Folks: September 26, 1999
Dear Folks,
Sunday morning, crisp, bright. Ah! September! One of the glory months!
Bugs are gone, nights are cool, approaching freezing but no frost yet, days are warm but not too hot to work. Just a hint of the tree colors to come. The flood tide of food from the garden is beginning to abate — the melons and corn are over, [...]
Dear Folks: August 30, 1999
Dear Folks,
What a painful month it has been! And what a beautiful month it has been! I guess that means it’s been a month of up and down emotions.
UP — August around here is always so lovely. The midsummer heat is tempered but not gone. The sun rises a full hour later and sets a full hour earlier, and the [...]
Dear Folks: April 25, 1999
Dear Folks,
Maybe we won’t need to put a “for sale” sign on Foundation Farm.
Maybe it will sell itself.
As soon as I started talking about putting it on the market, I got three expressions of interest, one from my next-door neighbor Peter Whybrow, one from a nice family in Meriden who have been eyeing it for some time. So this week [...]
Dear Folks: March 28, 1999
Dear Folks,
Foundation Farm has just invented a cartoon strip, the first installment of which you will find in this newsletter.
It started on the “white board” in our kitchen, the place where we write up the shopping list and the “to fix” list and the “to do” list. Sometimes random comments, announcements, or complaints appear on this board, but normally it [...]
