My MacBook is slowly draining and I can’t replenish it!

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Just wanted to drop in and leave a quick post.

Currently my MacBook charger is toast and I am waiting for a new one to arrive via snail mail, this is why I’ve been absent from the internets these days.

Miss Everly pulled on it one too many times and the wires inside the magsafe connector are frayed beyond simple repair.

The garden is keeping us all busy! The blackberries are ripening up nicely. I’ve picked enough for E to have as a meal, twice this week. She loves her berries! Our strawberry plants aren’t producing a while lot of fruit as they are 1st year plants but the blackberries make up for it.

We have already enjoyed two meals with our fresh zucchini and butternut squash and some tomatoes have begun to ripen as well.

N just dug up three square foot planters of potatoes that are being stored now, basically about 5-8 lbs of potato. We have several other planters of potato going still, as well as a ton of onion and garlic.

Each day there is at least one thing ready to be picked, so the garden is filling the time.

Tonight I am trying to cook up some turnips that came from the garden. We aren’t turnip lovers but N decided we should grow some. I am NOT experienced in cooking or eating these suckers so it should be interesting.

It is also about time for us to go pick up or 2nd month’s share of meat from a local farmer. We still have quite a bit of meat left over from last month’s share too! We did end up going through the 4 dozen eggs easily in a month. Everly is loving her scrambled eggs!

As soon as my MacBook cable gets here I’ll be able to compute more again. I’ve been AWOL, trying to make my battery last since Sunday when my charging cable gave it’s last drops of juice.

So, I’ve not been on my Mac, N offered his laptop to me in the meantime but I just can’t stand spending much time on it… It is a PC’s and I am so used to my Mac that I can’t stand trying to go back to the ways of Windows and PC.

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Donna B.

Though times (and your climate) were different, I remember my grandmother's and my older aunts' gardens. Mostly peas, beans, and tomatoes. Next in importance were greens (and their roots) and potatoes. A few peppers, some onions, and squash.

Corn was grown if there was enough acreage, but it was cheaper to buy corn (even for animal feed) than it was to grow it unless one had lots of acres. And if one had those acres, either corn or cotton was the cash crop.

What was important was to grow enough to feed your family through the winter by canning what seemed to me in my childhood enormous crops.

My grandfather (actually my step-grandfather although I didn't know this until I was a teenager) managed to feed and clothe 14 children on 80 acres until the Great Depression when he lost that land because he couldn't come up with $8 in taxes.

While I admire a lot about the movement to return to "green" living, I am old enough to remember how difficult it truly was. There is a reason it was called "subsistence farming".

My father is 87 years old now. He has under his control (not necessarily owned) about 5 acres of land. He plows this up every year and plants less than an acre for himself in peas, tomatoes, pepper, squash... and lets anyone who wants to plant and harvest the remainder. And I think it's durn sad that 1/2 the land goes unplanted.

I wish that you and N lived next door....

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