Lughnasa College Moon
The boxes are in the house for the final round of book packing for right now. Over the long weekend we plan to clean out our sheds, repair the fire pit, remove the wires from the fences put there to foil dogs and get a soil test done for the next steward of these lands.
There will be a three-ring binder with planting maps, options for caring for the fruit trees and shrubs, the perennials and utilization of the raised beds and other vegetable growing areas. A small library of Minnesota specific gardening books will be on a shelf. A well-functioning lawn tractor, bee-keeping start-up kit, a hydroponic kit for seed starting and a crystal chandelier in the kid’s playhouse will all stay behind, no longer relevant to our mountain home.
If certain decisions we’re making now prove fruitful, we could buy a new home in January, moving one, or even both of us out there that month or the next. I know, moving to Colorado in the winter, from Minnesota. Sounds like madness, but there may be some very good reasons to do it.