Rain and Pudgy Pies

I’m not going to lie to you, friends. I really did not want to edit this episode of The Grid Is For Squares. I’ve been working 60 hours a week at my new job, which is creating and editing a podcast, so the last thing I wanted to do was edit another podcast in my “free time.”

But I’m glad I did, for a few reasons. One, I haven’t seen Vince much this spring and it’s always nice to hear his voice. Two, our power was out in Glendale when we recorded, and it came back on while we were recording, which was a fun real-time adventure to go on during our recording session. And three, it’s been a few months now since I’ve been up on our property and this makes me feel like I’m at least kind of still part of it.

What a spring it’s been.

Well, I’m not going to linger on this post (see again: working 60 hours a week), but a few things you’ll hear in this episode are:

• Meeting some neighbors

• Capturing at least 50 gallons of water from a single day of rain

• Burning poison oak (carefully) during the rainstorm

• Helping our skoolie friends with some bus projects

• A turkey taking an ash bath where we’d burned poison oak the day before

• Using a vintage pudgy pie grill to create all kinds of culinary abominations

• Our yurt should be ready sometime this week, so very soon we’ll be picking it up!

Well, that’s all for now. Stay safe out there and learn something about a mushroom today.