Posts from — September 2010

Dear friends, it has been too long. Forgive me. August was like being thrown in a blender. I am only just beginning to wake up on the other side.

We spent the last few days preparing for hurricane Earl – moving containers and crates inside, boarding up the greenhouses, lashing wheelbarrows to the fence. The whole island was aflutter, charging into Cronigs for bread and milk and batteries, filling tubs with water for the upcoming power outages. In the end, the storm was a non-event, but it rained almost four inches, and the fall plantings of carrots and kale look perky and new. It almost, almost makes me feel like I have it in me to stand up, gather my wits, and charge ahead into the new season.