UPDATE From the Garden Front! Kelsey, Peesh, and Dev-dog (Various Others here and there) bring to you future food of Slade! Enjoy!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Summertime
Hey Slade,
It's been a while. Two weeks, really, but it feel like a million years since cleaning the house top to bottom til four in the morning with Em, Eric, Tae, Jill, Jens, and even Owen. Two weeks is not long, but it also is so long. I think I really needed that last big clean in the kitchen and basement to feel like I could go. The kitchen has always felt like that part of my brain I retreat to when I need to be quiet for a while, and I'm going to miss it. I already miss it. It's hard to find a new space that feels the same weird timelessness that the kitchen had. Maybe there isn't one.
But right now, Kale and I are sitting in Viva Espresso dreaming about the garden and ice cream. Scratch that, too hot for dairy - we want Italian ice! The greenhouse is almost entirely planted with tomatoes and peppers and basil and tomatillos (that kale had a dream about!) and the garden it on it's way. It's been tough with all this crazy rain for weeks but we can do it! The amount of kale and spinach Kelsey took out of the greenhouse was incredible, so if you're around and like to eat those things let us know! Kale and peanut butter is a good to snack on in the shade.
Going to plant LOTS of BEANS today. Jens and Annie just walked into Viva, too! It's alright here in B-town, but I wish you were all here, too.
LOVE ALWAYS (Kelsey says that is an aggressive way to end this).
Peesh and Kale.
It's been a while. Two weeks, really, but it feel like a million years since cleaning the house top to bottom til four in the morning with Em, Eric, Tae, Jill, Jens, and even Owen. Two weeks is not long, but it also is so long. I think I really needed that last big clean in the kitchen and basement to feel like I could go. The kitchen has always felt like that part of my brain I retreat to when I need to be quiet for a while, and I'm going to miss it. I already miss it. It's hard to find a new space that feels the same weird timelessness that the kitchen had. Maybe there isn't one.
But right now, Kale and I are sitting in Viva Espresso dreaming about the garden and ice cream. Scratch that, too hot for dairy - we want Italian ice! The greenhouse is almost entirely planted with tomatoes and peppers and basil and tomatillos (that kale had a dream about!) and the garden it on it's way. It's been tough with all this crazy rain for weeks but we can do it! The amount of kale and spinach Kelsey took out of the greenhouse was incredible, so if you're around and like to eat those things let us know! Kale and peanut butter is a good to snack on in the shade.
Going to plant LOTS of BEANS today. Jens and Annie just walked into Viva, too! It's alright here in B-town, but I wish you were all here, too.
LOVE ALWAYS (Kelsey says that is an aggressive way to end this).
Peesh and Kale.
Monday, May 9, 2011
"It's like, if you give yourself, listen, nobody can blackmail you with anything. I'll never forget, you know, when I first started to really understand what this was all about, I just went to my parents and I just started confessing about stuff what I did like in the 2nd grade. Seriously. But we don't know what all that stuff, we're kids, man. All that repression. All that stuff just holding you. All that stuff talking...chained to that....But just from a child growing up with all that guilt. You know, and we think that's God, we think that's God telling us, "Feel guilty." God is saying; "Get free. Confess, man. Understand that, look, everybody is going through the same stuff, same issues, it's just a bunch of repression." And I'm saying, man, life is just, it's too valuable, man, for us to sit here in these boxes all repressed. You know, afraid to admit what we're really going through. I'm tired of that. I tell people, you know it's so funny...Yeah, I'm crazy and deranged. You know? And I'm free."
-Lauryn Hill (Outro, MTV Unplugged)
Came up on shuffle, she's a woman worthing listening to.
-Lauryn Hill (Outro, MTV Unplugged)
Came up on shuffle, she's a woman worthing listening to.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
finals week
Peesh here, updating from Viva Espresso! I'm out in the northy part of Burlington and dreaming about summer. One more paper, two exams, some room painting, one big move and we're out. I already miss you all because I'm in dreamland.
I just watched a video of Glenn Beck telling people that powershift taught the youth to kill their parents. I'm confused about how anyone in the entire world takes him seriously, let alone believes in him. I had also grown complacent in my Burlington bubble and forgotten about how scary the world is. Gotta start reading the news again!
On another note, I really like this quote: "The Things to do are: the things that need doing that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done." -Bucky Fuller
I just watched a video of Glenn Beck telling people that powershift taught the youth to kill their parents. I'm confused about how anyone in the entire world takes him seriously, let alone believes in him. I had also grown complacent in my Burlington bubble and forgotten about how scary the world is. Gotta start reading the news again!
On another note, I really like this quote: "The Things to do are: the things that need doing that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done." -Bucky Fuller
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
cuddle puddles make me wet
How does community continue?
Constant companionship, collaboration with compatriots
We're as patriotic as they come
We come I come Some come
We float
In and out
Of kitchens, basements, pantries, doorways
Of focus, kindness, calm
We struggle up the mountain
We have so little time
We have so much to say
A flought goes unsaid
Once alive, now dead
Revitalize that *spaghetti dinner* in your head,
When one teaches, others must agree to being led
*Circles* are formed, learning shan't be required
Best when pursued
All paths perused
But which to choose
Some rather'd buy shoes in a scheme of dark and bright hues
Instead take your 50 bucks
and get the Healing touch
Take time to feel, time to heal
We're on a wheel of Fortune
I am fortunate to be a part of this community
It's pretty new to me
I'm trying to come through you see
Between you and me
Exists a wall
Varying in height
from 20 ft tall to none at all
Abandoned in 1979
It was supposed to be felled in 1989
Recorded in 1982
But some remains
are stacked in a milk crate somewhere
*reference to Carmen's baller spaghetti squash dinner!!!
*reference to the Killer Kava circle, gotta happen again.
LOVE TO ALL OF YOU, I AM YOUR MOTHER
sydney
Constant companionship, collaboration with compatriots
We're as patriotic as they come
We come I come Some come
We float
In and out
Of kitchens, basements, pantries, doorways
Of focus, kindness, calm
We struggle up the mountain
We have so little time
We have so much to say
A flought goes unsaid
Once alive, now dead
Revitalize that *spaghetti dinner* in your head,
When one teaches, others must agree to being led
*Circles* are formed, learning shan't be required
Best when pursued
All paths perused
But which to choose
Some rather'd buy shoes in a scheme of dark and bright hues
Instead take your 50 bucks
and get the Healing touch
Take time to feel, time to heal
We're on a wheel of Fortune
I am fortunate to be a part of this community
It's pretty new to me
I'm trying to come through you see
Between you and me
Exists a wall
Varying in height
from 20 ft tall to none at all
Abandoned in 1979
It was supposed to be felled in 1989
Recorded in 1982
But some remains
are stacked in a milk crate somewhere
*reference to Carmen's baller spaghetti squash dinner!!!
*reference to the Killer Kava circle, gotta happen again.
LOVE TO ALL OF YOU, I AM YOUR MOTHER
sydney
Saturday, March 12, 2011
one day until we come home.
Update from Peesh, out in the Raynham!
One more day. I feel similarly on the coping-with-society front - my week has consisted of jar-confused baristas, listening to Rosa ("just sounds like kids yelling"), drinking Wolavers with friends who are drinking Smirnoff Ice, dreaming about farming, and telling my mother's best friend about our skinned robotic horse Chauncey. I even showed her a picture.
But the video Russ sent out really got to me in an interesting fashion. Aside from the meat meat meat focus (I just don't really like meat), wow! I'd do that. Let's do that. We don't have to wait for Mikayla's proposed Slade-retirement-commune. We could literally just live like that. It looks a bit like what we would do if we didn't have reslife breathing down our necks.
After seeing that video and watching a few others on that site, I've been giving a lot of thought to videos and radio-shows as a means of education. Would anyone like to get together a few nights a week to listen to the Greenhorns radio? It's really cute and there are 60-something of them! Here is a link: http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/programs/7-Greenhorn-Radio
On another note, I'm pumped for warmth and when Slade gets too hot so we sleep outside and dream about tent-city. Tonight the clocks change, we get one more hour of light! That's rad. I'm so torn about doing school work when I could be dumpster diving and foraging and gardening and building a home for a bunch of pals who love living together and doing the same thing. Or maybe I'm just torn about Slade because we can do all that but we don't get to keep it. Ephemeral things, you know? They're beautiful.
See you tomorrow!
Peaches
P.S. look at this cool poster I found in my basement!
One more day. I feel similarly on the coping-with-society front - my week has consisted of jar-confused baristas, listening to Rosa ("just sounds like kids yelling"), drinking Wolavers with friends who are drinking Smirnoff Ice, dreaming about farming, and telling my mother's best friend about our skinned robotic horse Chauncey. I even showed her a picture.
But the video Russ sent out really got to me in an interesting fashion. Aside from the meat meat meat focus (I just don't really like meat), wow! I'd do that. Let's do that. We don't have to wait for Mikayla's proposed Slade-retirement-commune. We could literally just live like that. It looks a bit like what we would do if we didn't have reslife breathing down our necks.
After seeing that video and watching a few others on that site, I've been giving a lot of thought to videos and radio-shows as a means of education. Would anyone like to get together a few nights a week to listen to the Greenhorns radio? It's really cute and there are 60-something of them! Here is a link: http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/programs/7-Greenhorn-Radio
On another note, I'm pumped for warmth and when Slade gets too hot so we sleep outside and dream about tent-city. Tonight the clocks change, we get one more hour of light! That's rad. I'm so torn about doing school work when I could be dumpster diving and foraging and gardening and building a home for a bunch of pals who love living together and doing the same thing. Or maybe I'm just torn about Slade because we can do all that but we don't get to keep it. Ephemeral things, you know? They're beautiful.
See you tomorrow!
Peaches
P.S. look at this cool poster I found in my basement!
Russ's email was nice.
Hey team,
Time for the mid-vacation "I miss Slade" blues:
My friend just showed me this cool video about a homestead in Asheville, NC. It's the second video (made up of several videos)in this link, about the "Montana House:
http://www.americarecycled.org/
Immediately after viewing, I felt two strong emotions: frustration at him not believing that I live at a place very similar to this one, and happiness at knowing that I do. Obviously we're not exactly a homestead, but are some definite similarities.
Hope yall are well,
Russtopher
p.s. I say we challenge them to a basketball game.
Time for the mid-vacation "I miss Slade" blues:
My friend just showed me this cool video about a homestead in Asheville, NC. It's the second video (made up of several videos)in this link, about the "Montana House:
http://www.americarecycled.org/
Immediately after viewing, I felt two strong emotions: frustration at him not believing that I live at a place very similar to this one, and happiness at knowing that I do. Obviously we're not exactly a homestead, but are some definite similarities.
Hope yall are well,
Russtopher
p.s. I say we challenge them to a basketball game.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
louisbourg pennsyltucky
greetings space martians && marsha bradys
a big howdy doo from me to youu. i'm sitting in my kitchen, altho i started this post in ZELDAS my fams coffee shop.
i did mad werk there yesterday, i felt like suuuch a college kid.
also yesterday I played witha fluffy kitten named baby beaner, watched aristocats, read a PHUCKED UP STORY outloud (the yellow wallpaper....look it up. it's about the slippery slope known more familiarly as sanity) and drank whiskey and smoked spliff and cigarettes and ashed in a lamp and shared my soul with my friends and my brother.
hrmmmm
also looked at a bunch of nudie piks and beautiful old skool music videos (renaldo & clara, bob dylan's 1973 tour ahhhhh)
check out my friendies tumblr page, i know youll all dig it!!!
http://fernsandmoss.tumblr.com/archive
ALSO i, duhhh, made it home safe and sound after trying to hitch from VT to NYC. Hannah and I ended up taking the train and having all sorts of mishaps getting there and in but there and in we were.
here is the grand finale of the Tibet Benefit House Concert 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iatlprI7qoE
Stayed in Tae Baby's apartment in Harlem EEEEEEK i love her fam. Angie, mad props!
Played in Central Park, met my dreddy pal Emere from Turkey. Thanks for the ride emere(ica)!
bussed it to pa, got in Fridday nite, pregamed with mama wine goddess and went to see my fav local band play at my fams bar.
check out Snakes are Strong on facebook!
Saturday: skateboarded most of the day, ya ya ya, went to a storytelling event about TRAVEL then jammed with my bois the Lunch Ladies/Spaceships r Us until midnite or so.
Sunday: worked at ZEldas, hung out there, went home chilled wiff Brudda Ben. Read patti smith and conked out around 915.
Monday: skool work all day at Zeldas, got shit done. Friends maddy and casey came to find me, i started this post, we emailed a friend in Niceragua, my friend Taylor met us, discussed past Presiden'ts personalities, went on an adventure. Taylor is a cutie, hopefully hanging out with him today too.
enuff already Syd, no one cares!!!!!
LOVE SYDNEY
a big howdy doo from me to youu. i'm sitting in my kitchen, altho i started this post in ZELDAS my fams coffee shop.
i did mad werk there yesterday, i felt like suuuch a college kid.
also yesterday I played witha fluffy kitten named baby beaner, watched aristocats, read a PHUCKED UP STORY outloud (the yellow wallpaper....look it up. it's about the slippery slope known more familiarly as sanity) and drank whiskey and smoked spliff and cigarettes and ashed in a lamp and shared my soul with my friends and my brother.
hrmmmm
also looked at a bunch of nudie piks and beautiful old skool music videos (renaldo & clara, bob dylan's 1973 tour ahhhhh)
check out my friendies tumblr page, i know youll all dig it!!!
http://fernsandmoss.tumblr.com/archive
ALSO i, duhhh, made it home safe and sound after trying to hitch from VT to NYC. Hannah and I ended up taking the train and having all sorts of mishaps getting there and in but there and in we were.
here is the grand finale of the Tibet Benefit House Concert 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iatlprI7qoE
Stayed in Tae Baby's apartment in Harlem EEEEEEK i love her fam. Angie, mad props!
Played in Central Park, met my dreddy pal Emere from Turkey. Thanks for the ride emere(ica)!
bussed it to pa, got in Fridday nite, pregamed with mama wine goddess and went to see my fav local band play at my fams bar.
check out Snakes are Strong on facebook!
Saturday: skateboarded most of the day, ya ya ya, went to a storytelling event about TRAVEL then jammed with my bois the Lunch Ladies/Spaceships r Us until midnite or so.
Sunday: worked at ZEldas, hung out there, went home chilled wiff Brudda Ben. Read patti smith and conked out around 915.
Monday: skool work all day at Zeldas, got shit done. Friends maddy and casey came to find me, i started this post, we emailed a friend in Niceragua, my friend Taylor met us, discussed past Presiden'ts personalities, went on an adventure. Taylor is a cutie, hopefully hanging out with him today too.
enuff already Syd, no one cares!!!!!
LOVE SYDNEY
Monday, March 7, 2011
A Southern Update
This is Kelsey reporting from below the Mason-Dixon line.
It is 42 degrees here today. That is summer, right? I am enjoying the warm weather. I am enjoying not wearing my down jacket, my scarf, my mittens, my hat, and my two layers of tights. Even though, I am getting a good dose of vitamin D, I still miss my boogers freezing in Vermont.
Here is how I am coping with my Vermont separation:
1. Drinking Magic Hat
2. Drunkenly telling strangers about the mechanical Chauncey and the human Chauncey
3. Bonding with said strangers over Star Trek
4. Wearing Kait's Vermont Flower Show pin
5. Taking my jar to coffee shops (baristas too confused)
In other news, I went through some of my old things and found my alice in wonderland vhs, my complete illustrated lewis carroll book, and hello kitty's hair bows. Perhaps, I will bring those home.
On my way back from North Carolina yesterday, I saw these billboards:
"Everyone who is pro-abortion has already been born"
(Reagan quote)
and
"If it's not a baby, then you're not pregnant!"
what logic!
Tonight, Bread and Puppet is coming to Hollins University in Roanoke, so I will go show my Vermont love. Ironically, I have never seen Bread and Puppet in the state of Vermont.
~kale~say~ (this is really how my aunt pronounces my name with her southern accent)
the south will rise again - dad
p.s. I will read you bedtime stories out of it.
It is 42 degrees here today. That is summer, right? I am enjoying the warm weather. I am enjoying not wearing my down jacket, my scarf, my mittens, my hat, and my two layers of tights. Even though, I am getting a good dose of vitamin D, I still miss my boogers freezing in Vermont.
Here is how I am coping with my Vermont separation:
1. Drinking Magic Hat
2. Drunkenly telling strangers about the mechanical Chauncey and the human Chauncey
3. Bonding with said strangers over Star Trek
4. Wearing Kait's Vermont Flower Show pin
5. Taking my jar to coffee shops (baristas too confused)
In other news, I went through some of my old things and found my alice in wonderland vhs, my complete illustrated lewis carroll book, and hello kitty's hair bows. Perhaps, I will bring those home.
On my way back from North Carolina yesterday, I saw these billboards:
"Everyone who is pro-abortion has already been born"
(Reagan quote)
and
"If it's not a baby, then you're not pregnant!"
what logic!
Tonight, Bread and Puppet is coming to Hollins University in Roanoke, so I will go show my Vermont love. Ironically, I have never seen Bread and Puppet in the state of Vermont.
~kale~say~ (this is really how my aunt pronounces my name with her southern accent)
the south will rise again - dad
p.s. I will read you bedtime stories out of it.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
SLADERS GOT TALENT
Kait, Kels...
I'm just trying to say I love you, come back home.
Much love and country karaoke,
the other kelsey
I'm just trying to say I love you, come back home.
Much love and country karaoke,
the other kelsey
Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
hotshot 49 reportin from room voom 201
WHOA first post
got an exam in 2 hours so here i am writing on the blog.
bada bing.
"silhouetted against the backdrop of the ignited Shaandar Cafe, see, that's the very fellow!
Azraeel leaps unbidden into Farishta's hand" - The Satanic Verses
have been revisiting recent reads after a riotous discussion with SYD the SQUID-STEAL-YER-HEART about reading. It would be great to have 2 weeks off of school to just read and read and read and absorb information right through me eyes.
Is anyone else excited for one week off for spring break?
And alas, SlowFood is going to fuck some shit up this semester. No more Coke on campus. drugs kill people
Roser out
got an exam in 2 hours so here i am writing on the blog.
bada bing.
"silhouetted against the backdrop of the ignited Shaandar Cafe, see, that's the very fellow!
Azraeel leaps unbidden into Farishta's hand" - The Satanic Verses
have been revisiting recent reads after a riotous discussion with SYD the SQUID-STEAL-YER-HEART about reading. It would be great to have 2 weeks off of school to just read and read and read and absorb information right through me eyes.
Is anyone else excited for one week off for spring break?
And alas, SlowFood is going to fuck some shit up this semester. No more Coke on campus. drugs kill people
Roser out
2:44 o'clok
tik tok goes the clok, the party never stops gonna keep it popped
poopin out a slade bomb, tik tik boom hoardin dishes in my room
cant sleep cant weep only eat and watch the world discreetly
news make me need a tissue it's an issue what's your issue?
many words flockin all my musicz rockin till fate comes a-knockin
the fan flutters sweetly and my heater squeaks apparently
bobby's laggin on the left hand side and santa goes for a burn ride
crows fly across rainbow skies
and into the vortex or watermelon ladders
the pinnacle, lavender
like the oil my hair my stench
heavy with procrastination
i've taken a permanent vacation from sanitation
BUT i want to keep the house clean for our housekeepsers, they totally keep us aliave and hopefully will teach me some responsibility!!!!
i'm stoked on Food Not Bombs in this here town, gettin off the ground
i'm stoked on Boston, Food& Justice Summit this weekend
i'm stoked on feminists uniting to trek to NYC for the Planned Parenthood rally
i'm stoked on direct action
i'm stoked on poetry (today was t.s. eliot, mista prufrock and anne sexton)
i'm stoked on theft, books n food are all ya need!
i'm stoked on smartz and pez
i'm stoked on SLADE NATION
love to all the interneters reading this the sladers the haders the delegators
and ur mothers of course
SYDNEE
poopin out a slade bomb, tik tik boom hoardin dishes in my room
cant sleep cant weep only eat and watch the world discreetly
news make me need a tissue it's an issue what's your issue?
many words flockin all my musicz rockin till fate comes a-knockin
the fan flutters sweetly and my heater squeaks apparently
bobby's laggin on the left hand side and santa goes for a burn ride
crows fly across rainbow skies
and into the vortex or watermelon ladders
the pinnacle, lavender
like the oil my hair my stench
heavy with procrastination
i've taken a permanent vacation from sanitation
BUT i want to keep the house clean for our housekeepsers, they totally keep us aliave and hopefully will teach me some responsibility!!!!
i'm stoked on Food Not Bombs in this here town, gettin off the ground
i'm stoked on Boston, Food& Justice Summit this weekend
i'm stoked on feminists uniting to trek to NYC for the Planned Parenthood rally
i'm stoked on direct action
i'm stoked on poetry (today was t.s. eliot, mista prufrock and anne sexton)
i'm stoked on theft, books n food are all ya need!
i'm stoked on smartz and pez
i'm stoked on SLADE NATION
love to all the interneters reading this the sladers the haders the delegators
and ur mothers of course
SYDNEE
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Energy to do things!
Update from Peesh in the Nook/Astrodome.
Just wanted to share some cool feelings about Keith McHenry coming to stay at Slade and his presentation about Food not Bombs. It was pretty mind-blowing, and I have all kinds of energy to do things like walk with a group of women to our senator's offices and tell them how much we don't like the idea of cutting Title X funding.
Some of that energy also went into relocating a lot of hooks out of closets to the outside of rooms on the third floor. I love dismantling/building things, especially when I can make something that is not very useful into something very useful! I'm using the heck out of that hook by the door now.
As part of the hook moving parade, us third-floordians had a hall decorating and cleaning party which resulted in some pretty spooky lighting and a Tea-station across from the bathroom. My next move is to make a shelf for all the body-cleaning products in the shower room, but one thing at a time. Maybe I should do something schooly, but I really am into these home improvements right now.
Other notes:
Just wanted to share some cool feelings about Keith McHenry coming to stay at Slade and his presentation about Food not Bombs. It was pretty mind-blowing, and I have all kinds of energy to do things like walk with a group of women to our senator's offices and tell them how much we don't like the idea of cutting Title X funding.
Some of that energy also went into relocating a lot of hooks out of closets to the outside of rooms on the third floor. I love dismantling/building things, especially when I can make something that is not very useful into something very useful! I'm using the heck out of that hook by the door now.
As part of the hook moving parade, us third-floordians had a hall decorating and cleaning party which resulted in some pretty spooky lighting and a Tea-station across from the bathroom. My next move is to make a shelf for all the body-cleaning products in the shower room, but one thing at a time. Maybe I should do something schooly, but I really am into these home improvements right now.
Other notes:
- Hedonism day is coming up
- Compost tumbler should be here soon
- Talking to Chris about fixing the solar panels on the greenhouse
- Fridge and the Spin$ show on Friday!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
He he he he
Hello. Shana McCann and I (Peesh) are sitting/standing/laying in room 301 right now giggling about the email address for this blog. Kale Seitan is secretly a way of praising Lord Voldemort, whilst also being the name of a very tasty dish - seitan wrapped in kale. SO GOOD.
Anyway, as an update post-sladies-night/music extravaganza, I have a surprise for you. I secretly recorded some tunes.
Home
Whiskey
Anyway, as an update post-sladies-night/music extravaganza, I have a surprise for you. I secretly recorded some tunes.
Home
Whiskey
Thursday, February 17, 2011
i'm walkin' on sunshine!
INSTANT DEL PIZZA UPDATE:
It's a balmy FORTY FIVE degrees here in Burlington, and let me tell ya, it feels like August. The great thing about living in the tundra is that even a mere thirteen degrees above freezing feels like fifty.
Inspired and thoroughly flipped out by the weather, Peesh and I walked home this afternoon in t-shirts, yelling the whole time. We ambled up to Slade only to find our favorite dread head, Syd, swingin' away under Mother tree. We screamed a little about passive solar block parties, whatever that means, and flung open the living room windows praising the gods of feelin' good. Then Syd biked away to class for the first time on a fixie.
Me and Peeshie proceeded to get super hyped on manual labor and shoveled some snow out of inconvenient places then checked out the greenhouse. That baby really needs our help. We have more little plastic planters than Gardener's Supply, and they're practically all broken. WHY? Anyhow, we were thinking that it would be fun, cool AND productive to have a workday/potluck in which we invite interested parties to come help us clean out the greenhouse and give them plastic planters and maybe a few brewskies in return. It would be great! Play a little music, do a little work, eat a little food, what could be better?
In other news: I sustained two more oven burns last night. I'm starting to look really cool and tough.
It's a balmy FORTY FIVE degrees here in Burlington, and let me tell ya, it feels like August. The great thing about living in the tundra is that even a mere thirteen degrees above freezing feels like fifty.
Inspired and thoroughly flipped out by the weather, Peesh and I walked home this afternoon in t-shirts, yelling the whole time. We ambled up to Slade only to find our favorite dread head, Syd, swingin' away under Mother tree. We screamed a little about passive solar block parties, whatever that means, and flung open the living room windows praising the gods of feelin' good. Then Syd biked away to class for the first time on a fixie.
Me and Peeshie proceeded to get super hyped on manual labor and shoveled some snow out of inconvenient places then checked out the greenhouse. That baby really needs our help. We have more little plastic planters than Gardener's Supply, and they're practically all broken. WHY? Anyhow, we were thinking that it would be fun, cool AND productive to have a workday/potluck in which we invite interested parties to come help us clean out the greenhouse and give them plastic planters and maybe a few brewskies in return. It would be great! Play a little music, do a little work, eat a little food, what could be better?
In other news: I sustained two more oven burns last night. I'm starting to look really cool and tough.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
captain we're drowning!
FUN THINGS TO DO IN BURLINGTON:
1. visit shelburne farms
2. go to city market ten times a day
3. check out manhattan house
4. go to junktiques
5. explore common ground
6. sample the shit out of dakin farm
7. go to the magic hat factory
9. find birdman
10. drink coffee in one of our three thousand coffee shops
11. kait ;)
FUN UPCOMING EVENTS:
1. open mic! tonight! sign up at 8:30!
2. fridge and the spins & slopsters play slade 2/25!
3. poetry night at 43 south williams. thursday night at nine
4. kait & harrison get hitched! open bar!
in other news: the house is falling apart. the kitchen ceiling started leaking this morning, so that's great.
in other other news: babe crew is serving up breakfast for dinner. come hungry, leave happy.
1. visit shelburne farms
2. go to city market ten times a day
3. check out manhattan house
4. go to junktiques
5. explore common ground
6. sample the shit out of dakin farm
7. go to the magic hat factory
9. find birdman
10. drink coffee in one of our three thousand coffee shops
11. kait ;)
FUN UPCOMING EVENTS:
1. open mic! tonight! sign up at 8:30!
2. fridge and the spins & slopsters play slade 2/25!
3. poetry night at 43 south williams. thursday night at nine
4. kait & harrison get hitched! open bar!
in other news: the house is falling apart. the kitchen ceiling started leaking this morning, so that's great.
in other other news: babe crew is serving up breakfast for dinner. come hungry, leave happy.
I love talking about compost.
Update from Peesh, in the Davis Center/Death Star:
Today in a discussion group for my Sustainable Development class, we ended up talking about landfills. I pointed out that even organic matter (banana peels, hot dogs, lettuce) can be dug up say, 25 years later, and still be almost entirely intact because of the anoxic conditions. I also pointed out a few ways to avoid filling landfills (composting being one of them) and shared a bit of knowledge I gained in the NOFA VT compost workshop. Consequently, I ended up saying "I love talking about composting!"
The editor of the Cynic is sitting across the room. She pins me with a deadpan stare and slowly says
"I love. Talking. About. Composting."
The class finds this to be hilarious.
(I really do love talking about compost.)
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Food Sources!
Butter: Vermont Butter and Cheese Creamery: Order through Black River Produce for delivery.
Produce:
1. New Farms for New America
2. David Zuckerman
3. Arethusa
4. Digger's Merth
5. Greg Sole
6. Common Ground
Oil:
Yogurt: Butterworks Farm: Delivery on Thursdays, order by Monday.
Nut Butters: Once Again Nut Butters, ordered by and shipped to specific person to be picked up at CWP.
Quinoa: Bob's Red Mill, ordered by and shipped to specific person to be picked up at CWP.
Flours: Gleason Grains, whole wheat. Hillcrest: Distributor in Williston with a variety of flours. Be sure to ask where the flours come from when you place your order. Needs to be picked up in Williston.
City Market:
Champlain Orchards: Apples, cider and sometimes onions. Delivered to the house every Tuesday.
Champlain Apiaries: Honey: Needs to be picked up in Montpelier.
To be further edited soon, this is just a start!
Produce:
1. New Farms for New America
2. David Zuckerman
3. Arethusa
4. Digger's Merth
5. Greg Sole
6. Common Ground
Oil:
Yogurt: Butterworks Farm: Delivery on Thursdays, order by Monday.
Nut Butters: Once Again Nut Butters, ordered by and shipped to specific person to be picked up at CWP.
Quinoa: Bob's Red Mill, ordered by and shipped to specific person to be picked up at CWP.
Flours: Gleason Grains, whole wheat. Hillcrest: Distributor in Williston with a variety of flours. Be sure to ask where the flours come from when you place your order. Needs to be picked up in Williston.
City Market:
Champlain Orchards: Apples, cider and sometimes onions. Delivered to the house every Tuesday.
Champlain Apiaries: Honey: Needs to be picked up in Montpelier.
To be further edited soon, this is just a start!
five hundred ways to cook beets!
it's a slade blog! it's a slog! streaming live from slade hall! this is kait! instant update: kelsey, peesh, and i are fuckin' hungry! we're losin' our minds! regarding the title, i only know about fifteen ways to cook beets. i do, however, know one hundred ways to love a cat. here they are:
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