Raquel's Blog archive

Raquel

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Animal intelligence.

Posted on 15 Nov, 2008 21 comments

Just thought I would share this with you since so many GoY members love animals (I love dogs, don't mind cats and like rabbits, but have none...

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Silly vegan woman.

Posted on 15 Nov, 2008 10 comments

She's not silly because she's a vegan but because she thinks that organic fertilizer mixes that contain rabbit manure should somehow be off-limits...

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State of the garden.

Posted on 1 Nov, 2008 5 comments

The blog that Spritz wrote about her experiences in the garden with the flowers this past summer have left me thinking about mine.
What flowers...

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Fig Syrup.

Posted on 9 Oct, 2008 9 comments

Well, regarding the farm, we've decided to plant some fig trees. Ok, this is not as random an action as it might seem...the truth is that financially...

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Early morning.

Posted on 9 Oct, 2008 2 comments

Today I was watering my plants at 6:30am in the dark (this is when you realize WHY we need daylight savings time!) and realized it was a cool...

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Blackberry-eating

Posted on 4 Oct, 2008 2 comments

Now that the weather has changed, just thought I would share this poem by Galway Kinnell. I love blackberries (we actually have them in El Salvador,...

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Last Saturday in September

Posted on 4 Oct, 2008 3 comments

Last Saturday-well, all last weekend, actually-I spent it happily dedicated to my containers...I don't know what it was, I had a sudden urge...

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Insects and other things.

Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 4 comments

I don't know what happened, maybe the hurricane stirred up eggs and larvae, because after the storm I've seen some of the biggest flying insects...

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The plants sheltered in place.

Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 10 comments

And happily, they all survived the hurricane! We were told late Thursday that everything that was on the balconies had to be moved and stored...

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Poems

Posted on 25 Sep, 2008 4 comments

Full many a glorious morning have I seenFlatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale...

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Pet evacuees

Posted on 25 Sep, 2008 14 comments

One of the more touching aspects of this whole hurricane ordeal (after the human angle, of course) are what happens to the pets when they're...

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After the storm

Posted on 23 Sep, 2008 4 comments

After the storm everything slowly returns to normal, but nothing is quite the same...things are appreciated more deeply, like electricity and...

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