It was interesting to make pomegranate juice at home. What a process! Peeling the fruit and taking out the segments was the most time consuming. But in keeping with organic processes, I spread out a section of the newspaper on the table and did the peeling there. At the end of it, all that needed to be done was to gather up the paper and take the whole bundle to the compost. I felt a sense of dejavu with the Reynolds aluminium foil commercial!

The juicing process was not complex, a good Cuisinart blender did the trick and the color was simply gorgeous. A rich, strong majenta. The taste was lip puckering, cheek-sucking-in tart; but a little bit of sugar went a long way in neutralizing the tartness.

And at the end of it all, my heart was delighted to add the ground up fruit mush to the compost. I don't know who is more happy, me or the wrigglers in the compost bed at this moist addition. Oh, the simple pleasures of life.

On a recent trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, I bought a bunch of berry twigs at the famous Hay Market to dress up a room. The corkscrew willow has rooted in the water and it will get planted today. Today is the day to propogate some jasmine runners, plant the willow and get pots ready for banana transplants. I love plant propogation, something beautiful about seeing new life spring forth.

So, I am off to plant-propogate and till next time,
rvgreen?

Hello Again,
Loooong time no post. This will have to be changed. But I am happy about many things, one thing in particular. It is raining; the soft, drizzly misting of the first winter rains and this makes me happy. Why? My garden is getting a free watering, that's why! The newly transplanted "murunkai" plants should like that. The whole yard looks hydrated with the rains and I feel happy to think the leaf pile will start to compost pretty soon. Here's one more thing to be added to the list of much loved "free" things. I do like things that are free and good for me and my space. Can't beat el sol for the heat and la lluvia for water.

Here is another idea I gathered from skimming through a knitting magazine - plastic bags can be used as yarn to knit with. How cool is that! I haven't tried it yet myself, but it resonates with my philosophy of reuse and recreate. It is always nice to be able to use an object in another way from its original intended purpose, thereby getting more value out of it.

So long for now, and until next time ask yourself rvgreen?

Hi, so it has happened, the blog is set-up and I am off and running in the world of online blogging. What a concept! To maintain a log for the world to see! I thought I had plenty to say, but where are the thoughts and the words? They are hiding somewhere, waiting to spring forth and gush like the gurgling brook of spring time. What?!!! The poet in me is chomping at the bit - unleash me, unleash me, I need to hasten and make everything green.

Going green is the environmentally correct thing to do nowadays, but I have always been drawn to being green, both inside and outside of my home. I don't know when or how this awareness came about, but I think it must have something to do with the noxious, un-natural odors of all things chemical and toxic. Even before my olfactory senses are aware of it, the unpleasant tingling on the face is enough to warn me off.

So it has been compost for the garden, vinegar for the windows. The garden is not lush, the windows are not streakfree, but for the most part my home and garden is manufactured periodic table free. And the rewards? Oh, the garden is alive with bees and butterflies and the birds that feast on critters of all sizes.