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Month: July 2019

It’s July Already?

It’s July Already?

What? It’s almost August?? Somehow it’s the second half of July and I feel like we’ve done absolutely nothing this summer. That isn’t true, but it certainly feels like it. Here’s what’s going on: The house project has stalled. It took National Grid eight weeks to move the gas line so that the next part of the project could keep going. In that time, our contractor’s crew started working on another job (and frankly, I don’t blame him), and we’re…

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Four Brothers and Three Sisters

Four Brothers and Three Sisters

We’ve got a garden in (because oh boy, do we have plenty of dirt with the construction going on!), and we’ve been steadily working on it over the past couple of weeks. Instead of deluding ourselves into believing that that this was the year that we were going to get a giant garden in that would cover a large portion of our produce bill, we decided to keep it simple. We also decided to make it a homeschooling lesson for…

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