April’s fools

Tomato plants in germination about two weeks ago.

I just realized i totally missed out on a cheesy april fool’s joke; I could have posted photos of a finished house, but even Rich’s visit last weekend couldn’t have operated that magic. So G and i are still hanging out in the roulotte, and there are about six million photos of the giant leaps forward in the house over the past week, and this week and the next there’s much more to come. But we’re doing a little catchup on other things before we get photos transfered out onto the vast internets, so here are some leftovers from weeks past.

Moved the rock piles over to the ledge that was going to be a garden and still might be, but after looking at it and looking at the rocks, it seems like a natural spot for a rock garden, which would of course mean that the rocks could stay put, which i’ve decided is really what rocks like to do best. There is a professional, gorgeous technique for this called ‘pierre seche’ or dry stone walls, i call this technique (completely unprofessional) a ’stone-thrown’ wall.  Check out www.pierreseche.com or http://pierreseche.overblogs.fr to see how it really should look.

This is one of my favorite things about being here in our little roulotte – sending the child outside, or trying to convince the child to come inside after driving his ‘car’ around in the mud (he’s asked for a wheelbarrow with shocks for his birthday), or playing with Machin the cat, or kicking his ball around in the tall grass, or going over to climb on the fence by the cow barn. He sits there and watches the cows and comes back to tell me which ones are not being nice.