Those Amazing Neighbors
Life has been busy and full this summer. Between working on the various projects that go along with life in our Bioshelter Home, the subsistence fishing and gathering that go along with life in Alaska, and various family activities, we have been busy. As a result, this blog has fallen on the back burner for some time. Today, however, I feel moved to write. One of the great joys this summer has been experimenting with growing things in a greenhouse. Our neighbor took a job in Oregon and had to vacate her house, at least temporarily. She knew that we wanted a greenhouse eventually, but did not have the time to build one, yet. She therefore suggested that we use her greenhouse this year. What a gift! Our friends might have said that it was predictable that one of the problems Cindee and I ran into with this amazing opportunity was a desire to try EVERYTHING in the greenhouse at once. Indeed, we decided to try three different types of tomatoes, and tried growing