I love color in December

The driveway ends here

It's a little more yellow than what shows up in these pics. We love it! It needs a second coat, which means tomorrow, paint paint paint. Maybe some snow this weekend?

Poppies

Can I get a hellz yeaha. Does this mean poppies from Jan-April? Let us hope.

We're attempting to paint the house today.

We're all going to be sober though, which goes against house painter's law number three.

"Morning Sun" is the winning color and yes, it looks like butter. And butter is a beautiful thing.

Dried delights

Blackbirds

Blackbird singing in the dead of night.... or midday if you will. I wish I would've recorded them on video, mainly so you could hear them. Stuart heard them all the way back in our greenhouse field and he initially thought the noise was coming from some sort of squeaky combine cruising along. There were thousands of them and I've never seen or heard anything like it. It was AWESOME.

Hoophouse number two

Slave to the Shovel

Shovel, o shovel, what must I do?

700 ft of water soaked earth

is not enough for you.

raise the beds high!!

raise the beds high!!

or the tulips and ranunculus will DIE.

but my back, I say,

my back has lost feeling

and my hamstring is burning

and i just want to rest.

Rest is overrated, slave.

Dig deep! dig deep! and let the mud fly

or the tulips and ranunculus will DIE

DIE DIE.

So let's just say the shovel has been my best friend of late AND impromptu poetry is probably not my thing. I got lucky today though and convinced Stuart he should help me finish planting the remaining bulbs.

Just some iris left to go. Another few lucky notes pictured below.

House colors?

So we've decided on a white tin roof cause a white roof is a green roof. The 'Arctic white' color that we like has a 65% total solar reflectance value. To be energy star certified, it must be 25%. However, a white roof brings some dilemmas as well; we are having trouble deciding what color to paint the exterior walls. We'd like something light. Our windows are going to have a rich dark brown trim, and we're thinking our doors will be stained dark brown as well. any color suggestions? We have to paint it soon, in the next couple weeks. Decisions, decisions.

The interior is now all backframed; we are currently waiting on the windows and doors. While we wait for those we may go ahead and paint the exterior walls and then get the tin on the roof. The pictures show our bathrooms framed in, one upstairs and then the master bathroom with storage space above.

CSA 2010: Now signing up new members

We are now signing up members for our 2010 CSA. The CSA will last for twenty weeks starting in late April or early May (this is timed with the strawberries coming in) and end sometime in September. Each week our members receive a box full of Bluebird Meadows finest and tastiest seasonal vegetables. These vegetables are much fresher than most anything you can find in a grocery store which makes them healthier and tastier as well. You will also be supporting your local farmers and taking part in a national movement towards a sustainable future.

OUR THREE SHARE SIZES:

Regular share--$360 which comes to around $17-18 in your box per wk.

Full share--$510 which comes to around $25 worth of produce per week, great for families or people who love to cook

Flower share--$170 each flower share member will receive a fresh bouquet to brighten their week, averages to an $8 bouquet.

OUR DROP-LOCATIONS

Wednesdays

Falconbridge neighborhood near I-40 and 54 Members can pick up their share from 3:30-6:00

Foster's Market of Chapel Hill on Airport Rd. This is a great site as you can get some additional goodies from Foster's. If you haven't tried their macaroons, coconut cake, or whopper cookies, you are missing out! We will drop off boxes here around 2:30 and you have until 7:00pm to pick them up

Saturday Morning

Durham Farmers Market from 8-12:00

This location has a very limited number of vegetable shares, so if you know you want this site, let us know!

We are also very open to creating a new drop off location somewhere in the Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Carrboro area. We like to have a minimum of 20 members per site, so if you are part of an organization that you think would be interested, just let us know.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING WITH US FOR 2010, SEND US AN EMAIL TO bluebirdmeadowsnc@yahoo.com

We would of course love to have you with us for the season.

Greens and Browns

Heaven.