Posts Tagged ‘Michigan’
Overdue Peru/Bolivia musings, and pictures!
First, to get the full experience of this post, please open this link in another window: http://www.huaynoperuano.com/huayno/. Leave open until you are done reading. I know, it’s a little late to be posting about the Peru/Bolivia trip I returned from several months ago. You see, when I first got back I wasn’t sure […]
The Joy of Accumulating Animals…
I’ve been accumulating animals over the past week. Just 8 days ago I got my first shipment of chicks, followed by a foster dog, a load of turkeys, and two barn cats. The chicks are already getting so big!
Playing Farmer
Summer 2012 I find myself living and farming just outside of Ann Arbor, MI. I’ve been working here at Brines Farm, Dexter since I returned from Enlgand last fall; my boss Shannon Brines runs a winter CSA. What does that mean? Well, CSA stands for “community supported agriculture”. It basically means that the […]
Home for Christmas
I remember last August, when the Sumac berries first began to redden, I saw it as the first sign of fall and the first indication of the coming holidays — soon I would be surrounded by family and old friends. That month, despite being in the midst of probably the best summer of my life, […]
Woo hoo I have a future!
I have officially been accepted, and confirmed… AND even bought AIRLINE tickets (!!!!) for a job this fall! Well, I use the term job loosely. I am going to St. Eustatius which is an island in the dutch antilles which is kinda near the Virgen Islands and Puerto Rico to work as a botanical garden […]
Updata where I’m AT
It’s been a while. Post Chicago I have spent the summer so far at the idylic biostation in Northern Michigan working as a teacher’s assistant for Ecology…. Pellston, USA. As for my job here, between the prof and two TAs we have 21 students. My responsibilities truthfully are very few. The professor prefers to do […]
Interlude 1: Solilique on a new beginning
As some of you may have noticed… it’s been a while since I last entried. So what have I been doing this whole time? you may ask. Here’s your long-awaited answer! To begin with, I came home from California in early June. This was an exciting whirlwind less-than-a-week trip across the US. To begin with […]