by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Sep 23, 2024 | Updates
Wednesday, I thought to myself how strange it was that the Maximillian Sunflowers hadn’t bloomed this year. Thursday morning, they were blooming. Friday morning, I thought to myself, “I’m going to get the Wordle in two tries today”, and lo! And behold, I got the...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Sep 18, 2024 | Updates
Sometimes a stranger knows just what you need. Instinctively, intuitively. They know nothing about where you’ve just come from or where you are going, or what is going on in your life. But somehow, they hold the key to you. On my long list of things that are most...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Aug 26, 2024 | Updates
I get nervous before every rapid in the river. The little voice kicks in, “am I good enough? Do I possess the right skills to safely and competently descend this?” The same is true at the bottom of every mountain: “am I in good enough shape to ascend this?” This same...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Aug 21, 2024 | Updates
Last week I made a lot of time. I never realized I could do that: make time. I thought it would require much more magic than I thought possible of my mere mortal self. It turns out, though, that “making time” is actually more of a shuffling of priorities than true...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Aug 11, 2024 | Updates
It rained. Not as much here as we had expected, but still, we were checking all the gauges, paddles at the ready. But then it seemed clear that none of the local rivers were up quite enough and we started doing other things-work things. It was a Friday, after all, a...