We’ve moved everything back over to our Orem house, but now we’re in the middle of settling in and unpacking. The kids are still getting used to things, though they’re doing surprisingly well sleeping in the same room. Our oldest daughter has had a couple of melt-downs (she has always been the emotional one), but I think she likes the new home, even if she isn’t quite used to it yet. As for our two year-old son, he’s been doing quite well, especially when we can get him to take a nap.
The yard needs sooo much work. Our sprinklers broke down, so we never watered anything this year. The lawn is quite literally dead. Of course, this presents us with an opportunity to reshape it, which we plan to do. Lots more garden space, a couple of fruit trees, some tree guilds and permaculture—we definitely have plans. But it will start with a heavy watering, once the weather cools down a little, and then a spread of some nitrogen-fixing clover. That should lay a good foundation for all the other things we want to do.
Hopefully things settle into something of a routine this next few weeks. Once they do, I think I’ll get back into writing. But since we’ve moved enough that I’ve got my home computer up and running, I should be able to blog more frequently and keep up with publishing/marketing tasks. My wife also finished the rough draft of her dissertation, so she’s making good progress on that.
So that’s what we’ve been up to. Not much more to say other than that it’s good to be home.
Ooh, permaculture! I’ve been trying to integrate some of the ideas of permaculture into my family’s land, especially the idea of zones. Maybe someday I’ll have my own land to experiment fully with, but until then I garden my parent’s land.
Yeah, mostly we just want a nice yard/garden that can grow us some food and doesn’t take a ton of work to maintain. I’d rather have a mix of acceptable plants that takes care of itself and doesn’t require much maintenance than a typical suburban lawn which requires constant watering, treatments, etc to hold back all the native plants that want to take over as weeds. My hope is that once we can establish some kind of permaculture, it will create a virtuous cycle and won’t require too much work, just regular (or semi-regular) watering.