Eric (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} benneer) wrote,@ 2009-08-23 09:12:00 |
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foreshadowing summer's end
My summer intern packed up her bags yesterday and left for graduate school. August is rushing to a close with a landslide of tomatoes, peppers, and squash drowning us all. The first of the delicatta winter squash are ripening and the cherry tomatoes in the green house are now about 7-8 feet tall. The CSA harvests this season have been awesome. So awesome that I'm trying to add 10 more members for the fall bringing me up to the goal of 100 shares a week which I had since the season's beginning. My mom was here last weekend and canned 32 quarts of whole tomatoes from the garden.
It's funny, I'm still waking up most days at 5 yet the sun isn't up yet. And at night I'm noticing the sun is already down by the time I crawl into bed at 9. The sunsets are long and beautiful with oranges and reds making the sky look like its on fire.
My other two interns will only be around another two months. When they leave at the end of October it will only be myself and the assistant farm manager finishing off the season.
I can see the fall stretching ahead of me. A list of chores and projects I want and need to finish but always there are the lingering worries and questions which keep me from actually relaxing and fully enjoying the work outside and seeing all the labor myself and the farm crew have put into reaching the point we're at.
My summer intern packed up her bags yesterday and left for graduate school. August is rushing to a close with a landslide of tomatoes, peppers, and squash drowning us all. The first of the delicatta winter squash are ripening and the cherry tomatoes in the green house are now about 7-8 feet tall. The CSA harvests this season have been awesome. So awesome that I'm trying to add 10 more members for the fall bringing me up to the goal of 100 shares a week which I had since the season's beginning. My mom was here last weekend and canned 32 quarts of whole tomatoes from the garden.
It's funny, I'm still waking up most days at 5 yet the sun isn't up yet. And at night I'm noticing the sun is already down by the time I crawl into bed at 9. The sunsets are long and beautiful with oranges and reds making the sky look like its on fire.
My other two interns will only be around another two months. When they leave at the end of October it will only be myself and the assistant farm manager finishing off the season.
I can see the fall stretching ahead of me. A list of chores and projects I want and need to finish but always there are the lingering worries and questions which keep me from actually relaxing and fully enjoying the work outside and seeing all the labor myself and the farm crew have put into reaching the point we're at.
