Molly Goatwax

The Daily

When I make my bed in the morning it means I will miss it all day and promise to return.

Crab apples

The Aquaponic Project

The graduate students are having such great success with the shishito peppers and the tilapia that they take them to market. I am jealous, and wishing I had a Quonset hut of my own.

All grown up

Yesterday the younger daughter turned 18. As the clock struck midnight she went outside with pots and pans to bang together. She shouted at the top of her lungs. "I'm an adult now! I am all grown up!" She reminds me of someone.

In the parking lot

I see my own white hair blowing in the breeze.

Poetry

I like words like "extrapolate" and "mollify",

Ruscombe Mansion

One of the big houses open to view this weekend, past.

Clouds over the arboretum

They look like a Chinese painting.

In the weeds

When I noticed the yellow flowers on the big weed in the front yard I told the teen not to remove it. I was hoping for a squash but I got a pumpkin. Courtesy of those thieving squirrels eating our jack o lanterns I bet. Better pick it before they do.

Farm Update

We have a bumper crop of Ghosts, Fataliis and Scotch Bonnets here on the parking lot. The SAAB may have met its reward a year ago but a tiny Fiat has taken the space. I also sold a large painting in time to pay the mortgage. And so life moves forward.