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05/11/2024

Looking north.

05/04/2024

Desperation grafting, my last chance to save this thick trifoliate trunk and large root system. I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I have a semi-educated guess. I do believe one would consider this top-working a citrus tree? I have 2 different mandarin varieties and a kumquat worked into the trunk. I would be more than happy if at least one were to survive. My bud grafting didn’t take. Anyone with more experience have a guess if this will work? Take my poll.

Will at least one of the grafts take?

04/19/2024

A gooseberry explosion.

04/03/2024

If I were Emi, I would name my new fort, “Plum Fort.” Alas, I don’t have naming rights.

03/29/2024

LE BONHEUR de ce monde.

12/26/2023

Feliz Navidad. Garden Santa reminding all of us to keep our fruit trees well pruned so that all fruit is low hanging fruit. Sour cream pear pie. Hohoho!

12/17/2023

Got some lettuce in. I don’t expect much for a while but might as well give it a go. Cozy little light box.

11/27/2023

Our dessert-king fig is being pulled away from the door. This guy has little breba figs ready to pop when the sun turns up the heat. Figs are so fun to manipulate!

11/01/2023

La calaca! Tonight in the madrugada the angelitos come for hugs and sweet treats.

10/17/2023

Hmmm Higos!

10/15/2023

Hace unos año. Donde las dos culturas bailan como amantes, violentamente enamorados.

09/25/2023

The backyard garden is my passion but sometimes during the summer I have to focus on my day job. If I expand the backyard a bit, I suppose they can be related.

08/19/2023

Engine 701 2023. Que bomberos tan guapos no? Es un privilegio trabajar con gente tan apasionados, inteligentes y joviales.

07/28/2023

Can you find Bronca? She is a quirky bird, maybe a chicken genius. She likes her privacy when she lays her huge white eggs. I found you Bronca!

07/01/2023

Dutch baby with a backyard bouquet. The eggs, raspberries and mint are all from the food forest. I declare us, the Staleys, self sufficient in mint!

05/29/2023

Property value goes down if you have a greenhouse, that’s what they say. I’ll bet my ugly beast oh a greenhouse particularly brings down the value. How do you say greenhouse in Spanish? “Casa verde?” Nope! “invernadero!”

Can you answer this?

Que es más valioso que el dinero?

05/28/2023

I pledge, every week on Sunday, I will do a task, a check, a patrol to win the war against the town deer. I will not let them win. First step, let the deer know that I am serious. But we all know the deer will just read this sign and not respect the rules. But this is fair warning. Town deer, let’s do this!

05/14/2023

Feliz día de mamá estadounidense. When you live with a Mexican mom in the United States you get to celebrate Mother’s Day twice, pero aún no es suficiente. Gracias para tu amor sin fin para nuestro crío. Happy Mother’s Day everyone!

05/09/2023

There was this goat named Oscar who was born on the Gonzales strawberry farm in Irapuato, Mexico. When Oscar was just a young kid, too young to remember, his mother and father died. So instead of being raised by a goat, like a normal goat should, Oscar was raised by a very loving and motherly dog named Gloria.
Gloria was a good parent and treated Oscar as if he were one of her own pups. She taught him all she knew about life, the basics: barking, growling, begging, and above all, her favorite past-time of chasing cars, motorcycles and bikes.
Gloria was well respected in the dog community and was very strict with all the other dogs, making sure that Oscar never felt out of place. So Oscar, the goat, grew up believing he was a dog.
Now as you can imagine a goat running with a pack of dogs, chasing cars, barking and growling is a pretty unusual sight and all the Mexican town folk in Irapuato got a big kick out of it. They would hoot, holler, point and laugh at Oscar. They would throw sticks and Oscar would fetch them back. It was great fun!
But all fun must come to an end, because the truth of the matter is a goat has a very different ending then a dog, especially in Mexico on Sunday afternoons. So on an early Sunday morning in Irapuato, Oscar the goat was sacrificed to the birria gods (birria is a delicious, spicy, goat stew).

Señora Gonzalez, who happened to be known as incredibly gifted in the kitchen, put up a sign on her front yard advertising her delicious birria made from fresh goat meat (Oscar) and soon enough people came to eat the steamy, spicy, oily, red stew for 35 pesos a serving along with hot, homemade, corn tortillas with a small but delicious dessert of strawberries covered in cream. That's when a black Toyota pickup truck with California plates pulled up in front of the Gonzalez house with loud mariachi music blaring.
A Gr**go popped out of the pickup truck. He was as Gr**go as they get---blond hair, blue eyes and tall. But there was something funny about this Gr**go---he dressed just like a Mexican farm worker. He had on huaraches (homemade Mexican sandals) and donned an old beat up straw hat. He spoke fluent Spanish with lots of slang mixed in----"no mameys" he said, "chido," he said. Everyone was impressed with his Spanish and a little confused. He slurped down his order of the birria, stuffed his face with the strawberries, stood up, then politely said, "provecho" (bon appetite) to the others still eating and asked how much he owed for the meal.
"50 pesos" replied señora Gonzalez keeping a straight face.
The Gr**go gave a big smile and handed over the fifty pesos and then drove off.
Everyone hooted and hollered with laughter at the irony. The gr**go that thought he was a Mexican who ate the goat that thought he was a dog.

05/08/2023

Arid lucid dreams,
Muscles torn, government dorms
Waning moon-spring blooms

I’m bored. “Write a Haiku!” “Ok, good idea” A severity assignment is a pause, a break from real life. You get to imagine another life and appreciate the path you took. Something in the dessert makes you reflect.

04/28/2023

NPR has a new series called, “weekly dose of wonder.” They say Americans need more wonder in their lives. Apparently wonder can help your mental health. The first episode in the series was on the wonder of backyard chickens and I can attest that backyard chicken are wonderful. They have entertained me and my family for years.

04/23/2023

Good decisions 4 years ago are coming to fruition. The best perennial vegetable. Asparagus should be in every backyard. An ancient aphrodisiac and just plain delicious.

04/23/2023

Something very beautiful about the rootstock on my Persian lime. Look at her. Her name is flying dragon and she stands up well to the cold, even unprotected here on the cool Olympic Peninsula zone 8b. She is not modest…but would you be?

04/21/2023

Pear blossoms might be the prettiest blossoms!

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