Many times, through the years I've thought about blogging, but rejected the idea, for any number of reasons. I am still reluctant/ambivalent about doing so, but have decided to give it a go. There is a delete blog button, so how can I lose?
One day when I was 13 or so I decided to help with the gardening, so I took some Ammonium Nitrate that dad had laying around, and proceeded to spread it around the garden, and then watered it in. The next day, as I came out to inspect my handiwork, I discovered that I had "burned" everything up. Everything had turned brown, I had chemically burned all the plant matter out of ignorance. Then and there I decided there had to be a better way.
This was 1956, just about the time that a Berkeley citizen by the name of Rachel Carson was writing a book titled "Silent Spring", so I wonder if I might have been channeling her right from the start, because I have done my best to live organically since that time.
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- Thermopolis, Wyoming, United States
- Born in Berkeley, California in 1943, thus the 43.I spent my 20'S traveling around the world with the US Army. I then did social work in California, creating a therapeutic community for schizophrenics. We grew as much of our own food as possible, and did all the cooking. After closing the program 5 year later, I became a financial planner. When the opportunity arose to move from the Bay Area, and the urban crush it was becoming, even in the 70's I hopped at the opportunity. We moved to Thermopolis, WY, population 3500 souls, with one stop light. I started a professional cleaning business in 1979, and spent the next 26 years cleaning peoples messes, restoring structures from fires and floods, and maintaining homes and businesses.Through all these years, cooking and gardening were central to my being, as they are today.Last year I retired, so now I finally have time to blog.
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