Labor Day

Yesterday was Labor Day. I worked on my accounting, entering numbers into a ledger from a general journal. I’m preparing for the day I actually have a paying job in the accounting field.

I also watered my compost, made yogurt, and drank tea. Compost, yogurt, and tea have linked properties or are similar in nature. Compost and yogurt contain live bacteria, tea is a drink made of suspended particles from a dried substance usually leaves.

My compost consists of mostly dead grass from our yard with some weeds and leaves collected throughout this summer. I know of one other person in the Syracuse area who is interested in composting and who may actually keep compost at home. It is interesting to me that he and his father grew up within five miles of the Benton Young farm in Pennsylvania; also known as the Como Farm. Today it is the site of the Tattersall Golf Club located in West Chester Pennsylvania. http://www.tattersallgolfclub.com/index.cfm?menu=742&openitem=742.

It is unfortunate more people do not use compost at their home because it is the compost in my gardens that help produce the flowers each year. It is also partly the reason my lawn is healthier (in my opinion) than my neighbors. The grass can breathe and gets more of the rain to its roots when it does rain during our hot summers. However, one drawback is I have to cut our grass more often.

I started making yogurt this past winter after I read “French Women Don’t Get Fat” by Mireille Guiliano. She recommended eating homemade yogurt using the “Donvier” yogurt maker.

My tea is from the Seattle Spice Market located in the Farmer’s Market in Seattle. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending how you look at it, I don’t have to go to Seattle to buy it. See the link to Blue Moon Tea.

Now that Labor Day is over it is time to go back to work. I have an old car to fix or replace, a stop at the post office, possible stops at car dealers, and I have to cut the lawn.