Josh Kilmer-Purcell's Blog, page 145
May 20, 2010
Top 10 things I've learned from goats.
I think I've learned more about life after three years in the country than 15 years in NYC.
10. Don't butt heads with anyone who has bigger horns.
9. The grass is always greener when someone else cuts it, bales it, and totes it over to where you're already lying down.
8. Better the same old milking hands every day than getting used to a whole new set of callouses.
7. If you're not sure about something, go ahead and taste it. You can always spit it out.
6. The manure may pile up in the winter...
Let there be sprouts.
Gardening. People who know me, or have read my book, know that my refuge is my vegetable garden. Having grown up in Wisconsin, where neighbors compare their sweet corn crops like my NYC neighbors compare their handbags, I've always felt pushed to grow more more more.
Brent thinks I've finally surpassed the size of garden that I could possibly govern all by myself. Having had two bad tomato years, I've decided to leave nothing to chance, and have moved my tomatoes out of the 52 raised beds...
Mary and Pinkster
Mary Beekman is a four-year-old ghost who resides in The Beekman Mansion, and considers Brent and Josh her "imaginary friends." Follow Mary Beekman's Diary each week to learn what it's like to be a young child in early 19th century America
It is Pentecost today. I know church will be long with much talk about the holy spirit. I try to understand, I really do. Father said the Dutch in our neighborhood call it Pinksteren. In our church today there will be three babies baptised. I think it...
May 19, 2010
Firsts.
The first baby robins of Spring.
The first time doing anything is always a little bit tougher than the second time. Since this is my first official blog entry on Beekman 1802 it feels like it should be somewhat momentous. Which has me scratching my head. Nothing feels that momentous this morning. Brent's not at the farm this weekend. I've got a list of chores that will fill every sunlight hour. A little gardening. A little clean-up. Putting the screens in the windows. See? Nothing very...
May 18, 2010
On The Verge
While Beekman 1802.com will continue to chronicle our experiments in seasonal living, we know that a lot of you who stop in periodically to see what we've got cooking, growing or designing will also be interested in what the cameras captured (and didn't capture) on The Fabulous Beekman Boys.
Yeah. We know we are lucky. Yeah. We know our life is "fabulous". There's so much, in fact, that a lot of the fabulousness never even makes it into the show! !
The Beyond 'Fabulous' blog will give a...
May 17, 2010
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May 16, 2010
A Needle Pulling Thread
In the summers, William Beekman's son, Cornelius, used to love to walk the five miles that ran between the farm and center village.
But there was a problem. On those long, hot summer walks, his feet would swell. Shoes being the rather rudimentary foot coverings they were in the early 1800s, blisters were often the souvenirs from his trip into town.
The all-knowing mom, Joanna Beekman knew exactly what to do.
She would thread a needle and then hold it over the flame of a candle to sterilize...
May 14, 2010
Mary's Violets
Mary Beekman is a four-year-old ghost who resides in The Beekman Mansion, and considers Brent and Josh her "imaginary friends." Follow Mary Beekman's Diary each week to learn what it's like to be a young child in early 19th century America
I could see them from my window this spring morning. I have been searching each morning and today is the first fine day I saw them! VIOLETS!! The sun must have been in just the proper place in the sky . The purple flowers were sprinkled across the grass. ...
