It’s freezing out, my son is far away in another state, so what to do?  Roast a turkey and fixin’s, and devour my new TN native plant books (courtesy of http://southlandbooksandcafe.com ), of course.

I’m happy to say all the greens and most of the herbs for this meal are fresh from the garden, even in January.  Hopefully most of our veggies this coming year will be, too, as well as being mostly heirloom, using no chems.  I’m not going into animal husbandry (wifery?), but we don’t eat a lot of meat anyway, and take advantage of the cheaper ones.

So I can start to afford used books again, and learn more about sustainable environmental practices.  It’s too late to change the world, but I can improve our small parcel of it.  It’s one of the few ways I have to do something worthwhile and leave things better than I found them.