Growth is a double edged sword. Unchecked, growth can be cancerous and destructive. It is this type of ceaseless expansion that has put our society into the precarious environmental and financial positions in which we currently find ourselves. On the other hand, growth can be regenerative and life-giving. Following a forest fire or a bitter winter, the first green shoots to emerge from the earth bear witness to the earth's ability to restore life in the wake of disaster.

My goal for this blog is pretty simple and open-ended: I want to document and share with family and friends my efforts to incorporate an ever increasing degree of self sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, and environmentally-conscious design into my life as a would be urban homesteader.

Monday, May 2, 2011

April Showers bring...Mud Day 2011


The weather here in St.Louis has been miserably soggy for the past 2 weeks. There have been only a handful of days where the sun shined enough to go outside and do much of anything. While this has put a bit of a damper on working i the garden, it did facilitate what has become a tradition here at the 'Burbstead: Mud Day. Every year, before the garden is completely planted, I give the kids one chance to make a big mud hole and wallow around in it. Is this good for the dirt in that spot? Probably not, but I don't mind. A childhood is not complete if you haven't, at least once or twice, gotten so dirty that you must be hosed off before you can enter the house. The kids always have a blast.










Now if we could just get a sold week or so of 70's and sunny...
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  1. Lee GoodAugust 18, 2011 at 5:32 AM

    These photos are great - what a blast

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  2. Mike LorenzAugust 19, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    Thanks. Once the weather starts warming up, the kids start asking about it. It has become a highlight of the year for them. It's a part of my attempt to keep them from becoming completely city-fied. I have way too many students that are horrified at the thought of getting the least bit dirty, let alone playing in the mud.

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