Yes, when it rains it pours—every day for a few weeks it
seems. We may begin to rival Washington
State as a rain forest if this keeps up.
Of course, better now than when harvest comes. Trouble is, it doesn’t follow our
wishes. It is, after all, the weather. And there are still those out there that tell
us that we haven’t caused these weather extremes along with ‘the world is flat
and only 6,000 years old, you can grow a snake with a long horsehair in a dish
of water, etc.’ Anyway, we need to really keep on working on solutions to
climate change that last—wind power, water power, nuclear (carefully), and
certainly solar. And that means paying
for what we have done—can’t avoid it just because it is going to be hard and
take sacrifice.
Just finished
a big batch of noodles for the farmers market and orders and they are in the
kitchen drying on the racks. Will
probably make almost 6 lbs. dried which uses 2 dozen eggs. Lots of eggs right now and if you are going
to stock up for the holidays/winter at the Attica Farmers Market, I will take
orders for noodles that I will deliver locally during the month of October. 5 lb. minimum order.
Had my first
day of substitute teaching on Monday. I
used to do that about 30 years ago and I am delighted to be doing it at the
same great school that I went to and that my children also attended. Big advocate of the small school and
certainly public schools. Not so keen on
home schooling. Not sure what information
parents want to keep from their children and I certainly know that very few
parents have the skill and training to prepare their children for the world
today. I substituted for 2nd
grade and WOW do those kids have energy and imagination—2 things that add to
their ability to learn. A subject we
talked about that had to do with a few pages we were reading was animals. We talked about how it takes all of an animal’s
time to do survival tasks—hunting for food, water, shelter. When I began to compare that with the human
animal (us), I had several children express shock that we are animals too! That erroneous thinking can lead to a lot of
complications, and one little girl said that we couldn’t be animals because
animals don’t go to church!! Another little guy said that we were descended
from dinosaurs! Hope we never stifle imagination, but we do have to make sure
they have accurate information. Long way
to go, but they are only 2nd graders!!
