Ah, the return home…

Back from a flurry of events which, of course, took place over the hottest days of the year so that leaving the farm was an exercise in cataloguing all the plants that I'd failed to water fully before we left…

And yet, everything lived.







And how was the flurry of events? Wonderful! Thank you Slow Foods Sacramento for inviting me to be the keynote speaker, I had a wonderful time meeting many fantastic people, eating delicious food, and supporting Plates – a worthy endeavor indeed.

The rollerderby bout? My sweet niece scored over 80 points jamming for the Sacred City team! I was so happy to have arrived in time to see her (and I was the only person in the Roller King to be dressed in a little black dress) and watch her dive in and out of the other team's defenses to make her mark – Go Colt 45!!!

We drove up to Westerbeke ranch in Sonoma next and had a great couple of days talking books with erudite high school teachers. We also had great food there (are you starting to understand a key to my happiness?).

One more stop – Green Acres Nursery (see photos above) where Nicholas from Avid Reader sold books, Jesse "Nemo" Pruet printed book plates, and I…well I did no work at all, merely chatted with gardeners. What fun!

There's one more event to come this week – at The Book Seller in Grass Valley on Saturday at four p.m. I will be sure to water the Quarter Acre Farm well before we begin our journey into the Sierra. See you there?