Comments on: On sweat http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/ This is a journal, of sorts, of an organic garden in SW Michigan. "Ut sementem feceris, ita metes: non semper erit aestas." Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:11:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1276 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:19:00 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1276 Kelly: in a word, we’re hermits! It was fairly extreme, moving from living on a city bus route to living on a rural route, but…yeah, we don’t socialize much.

Knowing you, though? In no time, that yard of yours will do all you want it to, and more. And I also know what a bite a full-time, off-site job has on ANY time at home. I just let the laundry pile up, is all ;)

Meredith: silly you, taking a vacation during the garden’s big push!! FWIW, I just let my limas dry out at will (all the beans, really) and then shell them when I have time…in November, or maybe January.

Robin. AMAZING. I cannot IMAGINE the concept of my kid showering by herself, much less cleaning the kitchen! I have a friend whose daughter makes her own lunch in the morning (she’s 8) and I think that is miraculous. Hmmm. What will I DO with all that time, I wonder…

Ang: wow, we can only dream! And with homeschooling, heck, you can make a lesson out of all that canning, right?

]]> By: farm mom http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1275 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:35:00 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1275 ohh…bumblebee’s comment seems like a wonderful dream, doesn’t it? Of course, I always tend to think about how much MORE I’ll be able to accomplish in the garden/kitchen when mine are a little older!! :)

]]> By: Robin (Bumblebee) http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1274 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:45:00 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1274 When my son was quite young a visited a friend with older kids and stayed overnight. After dinner, she SAT DOWN WITH A BOOK. I was in awe and amazed. How could she just SIT DOWN WITH A BOOK? Then I realized that her kids took their own baths and didn’t need her to read a nighttime story. She had time to herself.

I recall thinking that it would never happen to me. But, as it happens, it did. My son is now 16 years old and I can actually have him clean the kitchen after dinner. (We won’t talk about the quality of the work.) I can read a book, go to bed early or just pet the little dogs. (No TV here.)

Things do change. You will learn to sit down in those chairs.

–Robin (Bumblebee)

]]> By: meresy_g http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1273 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:15:00 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1273 Oh I am such a slacker. Look at you being such a worker bee and I’m ignoring my garden and letting stuff rot. And I still have all those lima beans to shell too. You motivate as always

]]> By: Kelly http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1271 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:07:00 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2007/09/19/on-sweat/#comment-1271 It’s funny. We moved away from our big property with the giant sunny garden, to live on a big city lot with no established garden beds… and I’m so happy we live where we do. We were so isolated and depressed out there. But I miss my over-productive garden and the well-stocked pantry from my own hands. That’s why I’m buying food and canning/freezing, until I can get more beds put in and grow my own in abundance again. I suspect it’s going to take a few more years before I’m officially self-sufficient in the “putting up” department again, but in the meantime, I’m duly inspired and impressed by your operation, woman.

Also, the full-time job off site is putting a serious cramp in my homesteading gig.

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