Challenge has been helpful in organizing my thoughts on these issues and recognizing my desire to actively participate in the effort to moderating the hardships climate change presents -severe storms, food sources for us, other animals and plants, new pests and diseases to our forest  etc...

This has been a worthwhile enterprise!  Yay!

Hello Team! My son is home for just a few days between Gap Year adventures so much of my attention has been on him and my mother-in-law who is here for an extended Easter visit. I have a long list of 'to-dos' and have been frustrated that I have been getting to them. And then I remember that sometimes just showing up and being there with family is what keeps us all going and together. When I went out to begin emptying one of our compost bins that has been simmering all winter, I got tired after just one wheelbarrow load to the 'back forty' where I'm building a new bed out of twigs and garden scraps. But when I came back, there was my mother-in-law, wanting to see what I was up to. So I hot her a small wheelbarrow so she could have something to hold onto, and she watched me pick worms out of the black gold and throw them into the active compost pile - - she kept saying "Lyn, there's one.... there's another one." And then we walked out to the back of the yard together and she and I reveled in the Bloodroot that were blooming beneath the hydrangea and lilac shrubs. Bliss. We walked slowly back together and called it a day. Sometimes it's the little things. I'm glad to be doing this challenge, even if only a few of us are reading each other's posts. Yay us.

Happy Earth Day! Eggs for breakfast; Salad for lunch; Chicken on my 'Buddha Bowl' when we went out for dinner. Not bad. The sun was warm and I sat outside with my mother-in-law on the terrace. She's 87, has dementia, and loves the sun. She was happy. I sat beside her while she read a vintage 1963 Life magazine and I embroidered a tree on an old towel. It was a lovely moment on a beautiful day. It's raining now. I feel blessed to live in a place where things grow well and there is rain. 

It's Easter! We had salami with our cheese and crackers. I know. High on dairy. It's hard for us to ween ourselves, especially for a holiday. We ate pork, though, instead of lamb. It was delicious. 

On the road picking up my mother-in-law and daughter - - we ate BLT's and then had a chicken tettrazini for dinner that I had made months ago and thawed for an easy dinner when we got home. No food waste, though. My mother-in-law and I shared a BLT so we had the just right amount!

attended talk held on climate change and how to stimulate progress towards addressing as a community. Recently built cold frame and we planted lettuce , pruned our fruit trees and dosed using natural compost tea to help tree battle stress as they draw on their stored nutrients at the beginning of another suiting cycle.

It has taken many hours, but I have read Drawdown carefully in its entirety.  Shouldn't that challenge be worth something?