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The Urban Hayseed DOES Technology

What the heck?  Technology?  You HATE technology!!!

Yes.  I do.  And yet, I’m drawn to it… it’s pulsating technological goodness… making me feel dirty… but advantaged…

Anyway, this part is more for my own benefit than anyone else’s.  Don’t read this stuff.  You’ll just get it all over yourself.  I’m going to filter these technology entries into [...]

Peach Jam with Vanilla and Lemon

I will warn you that I am not getting sufficient sleep as of late.  If I read a little… you know… crazy, that’s why.

Good progress on the book over the last couple of days, I think.  Today, I had an exchange with an old friend from high school who, unbeknownst to me, is an acquisitions [...]

Writing a Book is HARD! I QUIT! No!… must… persevere…

Seriously.  I had no idea.  I mean, I’ve written a lot of stuff in my day, but this is the first complete, cohesive, book-form project, and getting started has been a bear.  As I worked through the outline, I realized that I had a lot to say about backyard farming.  One book started looking like [...]

Fall Garden and Preserving the Harvest

We’ve been really busy here in the land of the Urban Hayseed.  I ended up taking nearly a week off from doing anything in the garden because of the heat, and now it’s payback time.

Now is about the time you want to be putting in your fall and winter crops so that they have time [...]

Writing a book!

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while… I’ve been very busy with trying to get caught back up after the heat wave, putting food up, and deciding what to do with my life.

You might guess from the title that I’ve chosen at least one component of the “life” thing.  I’m writing a book.  It’ll be [...]