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RE: June in a New York State Garden, a Big House, Tiny Garden Update

in HiveGarden • 11 months ago

Did you choose your name because you live near a lake of the same name? If so, I grew up about an hour and a half from you. And I’ve worked as a pastry chef, too.

Weird.

I often wonder during my five years in a bakery how many eggs I cracked. It must be a ridiculous number.

You have quite the space for a garden. I’m envious. The space between my house and the next is probably slightly narrower than your raised bed behind the bag of potatoes.

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     11 months ago  

    Yes! I still own property on the west shore of Owasco Lake, and live 2 1/2 hours southwest of there, in Allegany county. You?

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      I live in Japan, but I grew up in Rochester.

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        Ah! I have relatives who live in Victor, quite a few of them. That's quite close to me. How did you end up in Japan?

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           11 months ago  

          That’s where my father lives in now. Too funny.

          As for Japan, I just wanted to live another country and I found a job in Japan so I came here and ended up staying.

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             11 months ago  

            I love these "small world" connections. (Lake Owasco)
            And that you were also a pastry chef, @boxcarblue.
            This was the first line I highlighted:

            You might be surprised to learn that bakers use a great deal of geometry. We are very good at cutting rolled out croissant dough into perfect triangles of equal size by hand. We can cut any size cake into equal size portions with a few simple circles and circle segments.

            And this!

            Today, I found myself using the techniques I once used to get the most cookies I could onto a cookie sheet, all spaced correctly so that no cookie touched another cookie as they spread and 'ripened' in the oven, while planning the layout of this year's cucumber bed. I mused about this - when we've learned something really well, the knowledge will come in handy in unexpected places.

            Ahhh, the good advice, the kind I need to hear repeatedly:

            So don't ever shirk! Do everything with love, intelligence and passion! When you're my age, you'll be glad you did.

            I did things with passion, all right, and too much incaution. (Dare I call it fearlessness?)
            If I'd taken more time, done more research, learned from others - but nobody else told me not to do the things I did. I'll have to write my own handbook of things NOT to do as a gardner/homesteader.

            Your seedlings are amazing!
            I will chant with the angels to your sweet potatoes: Grow, grow, grow!
            Why shouldn't the angels and saints concern themselves with plant life, too, after all?
            Life is life. Life feeds life.
            Grow, grow, grow!

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               11 months ago  

              Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow."

              • The Talmud

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