It's MAY!!!
I can not even begin to express how happy I am that it is May. This means I made it through the winter! And, I can't even begin to express how much I hate January, February, and March. Except for the fact that some really cool people in my life were born in those months. But besides that, I really just can't stand the grayness of January and February. I mean, who really wants to start off a new year, cold? And lonely in a trailer?
The weather is slowly starting to be nice. We finally had two consecutive nice days last week, which was a big deal. The sunshine and rain have been battling it out and it appears as though there is not a single fan hanging out on the rainy bleachers. We are all ready to be dry and warm. Luckily, we are gaining more and more daylight...it now gets dark just before 9 o'clock! It's so wonderful to be able to sit outside or go for a walk after work.
The past couple weeks on the farm I've begun transplanting tomatoes into greenhouses, started my summer squash in pots which will be planted outside sometime this week, also started cucumber and basil seedlings. It has taken all of my might not to just eat the basil starts. They smell like sweet sweet summer and everything good in the world! I've covered almost half of my field in clear plastic to solarize the soil...heat it up for the corn to go in. Corn likes it hot to germinate. Market has started, which is great. This past Saturday we made over $1,000 in 4 hours! I'm starting to learn the names of the regular folks that come to market. It is such an amazing community of vendors and costumers.
Now, my biggest accomplishment as of late (other than the chicken bottom ordeal...which, mind you, I've become a pro at..I can now stick my hand under any chicken booty) is that I biked into town yesterday. That is 12 miles there and back. This is huge! I've been a bit terrified of biking the past few years - no thanks to Dr. Churchward who gave me one word of advice back when I was thinking of starting. His advice: "Don't." "You will get hit." Well thanks! Couldn't wait to start biking after hearing all of his horror stories. But now, here I am. I did it. I don't have a car anymore and I don't exactly want to surrender what little social life I have at the moment. So my only option is the bike and the bus. After, my twelve mile accomplishment I must say I feel quite free. I can go anywhere! And! No extra carbon emission coming out of me (well almost...I am human after all) and no money going towards gas! It's pretty sweet.
The only other thing I can think of that's going on at the moment is development of THE BIGGEST PICNIC EVER!!!!!! I decided that since this will be my first birthday away from my family and friends I need to take charge and make sure my day-o-birth doesn't turn out lame. So I decided to organize the biggest picnic EVER! Like in the world.
Here are the conditions:
1. People must invite AT LEAST one friend.
2. People must invite AT LEAST one stranger.
3. Those invited must follow all of the conditions as well.
4. Everyone must bring their most favorite food and/or drink.
5. BYOU - Bring your own utensils.
And I put out a request for things that would make this the COOLEST picnic ever:
Voluntary displays of musical talent, ebullient men and women on stilts, kites, bubble wands, drums, frisbees, a slip'n slide, balls of all colors and sizes, dancing, kazoos, giant hula hoops, pogo sticks, croquet, costumes (especially gorillas, sumo suits, and anything renaissance), badminton, sparklers, belly dancing, ferrets, a hot air balloon, a marching band, dodge ball, jumping beans, water guns, jump ropes, candy apples, spin art, a cake walk, juggling, cotton candy, harmonicas and banjos, clowns, face painting, mud wrestling, rhythmic gymnasts, henna tattoos, hacky sac, boom boxes with phat beats.
For those of you who aren't familiar with facebook...it is possible to create an event invitation and have it set up so that guests invited can invite other guests and so on. I started out with under 20 guests (all the people I know here) and in one day the guest list was up to 235! Then...482, 584, 1,012, and currently 1,597 people invited - 104 of which have confirmed they are coming. And it's only been 5 days since I made the invite! What have I done?! Is this bad? The picnic isn't until the 25th. And the guest list is exponential. I keep telling myself...it's gonna be in a public park...and so what if hundreds of people want to pic-a-nic on the same day? Eeeee....
