Hey folks, well its been interesting starting to think of certain things as officially winding down, 9 days isn't a whole lot of time but I think 3 months has been the perfect amount of time to be here for I am neither upset that my time is almost up, nor over joyed.
Since I last posted we have continued work in the garden, mostly just feeding old plants from the summer crop through the wood chipper and building a compost pile its a really amazing thing that we can compost what used to directly feed us with its fruits, turn it into soil and then have it help grow new plants that will bare new fruit and continue to feed us. The thing of it its that aside from the labor inputs and the small diesel input for running the wood chipper, its a really cheap sustainable way to continually produce good healthy soil rather than using the same patch of soil over and over and just pumping synthetic fertilizer in it.
Today while working we saw a couple of news vans driving past the garden and then one stopped and asked us if we had seen any sheriffs or knew where devils canyon was because three bodies had been found and they needed to report the news. It was just another reminder of the dangers of living in a border town.
It reminded me of last week when two Mexican girls came walking onto the farm and asked for help getting to Tuscon Jim said that he couldn't help them but he gave them directions and told them that there was a border patrol checkpoint about 10 miles away. They left and went on there way but then showed back up around nightfall. Tina gave them some blankets to stay in the barn under. The next morning they asked Jim to call border patrol on them because they were too tired of walking and wanted to go home.
Guy and I will be making some butter tonight out of Missy Moo's cream and then after that we are making Pancakes! Yum! :)
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