Back, finally

Morning temp: 45F
Afternoon high: 72F
Tonight's projected low: 52F
Wind: S at 5 mph
Humidity: 72%
Moon: Waxing, 82%

Well, it's been five months, and it's fair to say that our lives have been significantly overhauled since our last entry. To sum up: M is very slowly still healing her work-sustained broken foot, and has also transitioned to a day-shift position (7am - 7pm, rather than 7pm - 7am); after a ten month hiatus from university teaching, I have decided on a teaching career in mainstream academia, and, accordingly, have spent the past months studying for the Graduate Records Exam, filling out online and paper applications, gathering letters of recommendations, reading and researching various programs across the country, revising an article for publication, and generally winding my way through the byzantine world of applying to PhD programs; our Summer Garden was astoundingly generous, forgiving, and patient, while we harvested continually but otherwise neglected it; we have no Fall/Winter Garden in place this year, since the above projects consumed all of our time and energy, and next Spring we will be moving to one major city or another. How does Homesteading philosophy & practice fit in with these changes, especially when we are clearly not moving to "The Land" in upper-state New York? That's a good question, one we're currently working out.