Guy's blog about life with pets in northern mich. for Thursday, April 26, 2007

P reliminary field notes and approximate definitions, of the utterances made by subject: Ivy Nicole Grandchamp, strange child from another planet. These will be in random order as obtained, to be put in order at a later date. Definition: Skirted: What Ivy’s rotten little brother did to her, with his bottle Skatched: What Gampa’s nasty cat did, to his Ivy. Gampa: Handsome, godlike, alpha male patriarch of the family, source of all wisdom and candy. Gamma: Alpha female helper of Gampa, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Each spring I begin making preparations for my two gardens. I compost, making my own rich, dark soil. My broccoli, potato, strawberry and cabbage garden resides in my front yard, visible from the living room window and the road. My other garden resides elsewhere. Very other and very elsewhere, if you get my drift. Carefully preserved legacy seeds are carefully isolated from stray pollen that degrades what has taken years of subjective sorting from all other low-grade influence. Several times the... Sign in to see full entry.