(And sleep.)
Green and Black's Organic White Chocolate. Enough said.
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, by Novella Carpenter. Absolutely loved this one. She writes in a straightforwardly poetic way - how's that for a description - about gardening and raising animals in the middle of a city.
She just went for it. Already a proficient gardener, she also took up beekeeping (which I am now researching - perhaps a way to help Sharks overcome his fear of bees?), got some poultry for meat in addition to the chickens she already had for eggs, and finally went whole hog (hardy-har-har) and got two pigs.
I love that she never bought food for her pigs - instead she dumspter dived for ALL of it, which meant almost every night, she was scrounging around in the trash. Which leads to one of my favorite quotes of the book: "If we had had time to think about it, we would have realized that we had become these pigs bitches."
Sometimes books like this make urban gardening seem too easy or ideal. She didn't do that, but she does make it seem possible, and if not always fun, at least worthwhile.
And that left me feeling happy. A wonderful book, and definitely inspiring, if urban gardening/farming is your thing. She created something beautiful, both with her farm and with her words.
Mumford and Sons, thanks to my sister's kind gift of their cd. Not really sure how to explain their sound, except that I can't stop listening to it. My favorites of the moment are The Cave and White Blank Page.
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