http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/ en-us 2005-03-10T09:45:57-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000162.html "There will be no thieving until you sign the petition" - this from Lorenz as I stood in front of a beautifully displayed pile of produce in the red barn. While he's no mind reader, Lorenz got it right on:... Johanna 2005-03-10T09:45:57-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000159.html I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the reality that it is still winter. It's been months and months of snow, yet it's showing no signs of going away yet. Lorenz has been putting in his time on... Johanna 2005-03-03T09:04:34-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000155.html Over coffee this morning, I was trying to find excuses not to go to the gym. It was too sparkly a Sunday morning to want to get into the car and drive to somewhere to be inside. I suggested moving... Johanna 2005-02-13T19:27:06-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000153.html When I have phone mail, my landline starts flashing a blue light. Obnoxious as it is, it's the only way for me to notice it. Unfortunately, several times over the past months, the blue flashing has meant I missed H.P.'s... Johanna 2005-02-08T09:46:16-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000150.html Lorenz said, in an email last week, that I've hardly emerged from my "barn troll perch" in the past few weeks. This of course had my head reeling, with images of trolls in birdcages, but I didn't elaborate on trolls'... Johanna 2005-01-17T12:03:50-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000146.html My Christmas present to Lorenz sort of fell into the "make it yourself" category: I spent some time on a few evenings designing the tractor calendar. (The actual production, however, was far from home-made: I had it done professionally, on... Johanna 2004-12-18T09:53:36-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000140.html Yesterday, H.P. called. Boris was lounging on my floor, and the first thing I did was hold the phone up to the dog’s ear so he could hear H.P.’s voice. Shocking behaviour for an avowed non-dog-person such as me. But... Johanna 2004-10-31T18:31:45-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000131.html You would think Thanksgiving on a farm would be twice as special as Thanksgiving in the city. Particularly so when the farm you live on grows all sorts of winter squash, pumpkins, parsnips, carrots, rutabagas and all those other things... Johanna 2004-10-12T11:00:03-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000129.html "The sunchokes always flower just before the frost". I'm not kidding, that's what Lorenz said not two weeks ago. And they started flowering the last weekend of September. By Wednesday night, we had our first frost - but it was... Johanna 2004-10-04T09:21:28-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000127.html So you've grown the world's tastiest vegetables, you harvested them, and then you did all that post-harvest handling. Now, you've got a cooler full of stuff, and flats of tomatoes and boxes of squash and sacks of onions and baskets... Johanna 2004-09-29T21:02:40-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000125.html I keep missing the turkeys. Frequently, Lorenz comments that there were all these wild turkeys in the fields, but I never see them. Today, same thing. I went and hunted where they were last seen. No turkeys. Then, Lorenz claimed... Johanna 2004-09-24T14:55:27-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000124.html On Saturday I went for bike ride, and when I came back up the driveway I saw Til on the front field. Never one to miss an opportunity to take a gratuitous tractor picture, I dashed to my apartment and... Johanna 2004-09-20T11:07:31-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000122.html So, that birthday. Lorenz insisted that there would be no birthday party, no singing, no cake, nope, there would be no birthday events of any sort. So, Til, H.P. and I being the kind of people who respect that sort... Johanna 2004-09-14T17:59:12-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000121.html Well then. It looks like the Red Barn Troll left you hanging, permanently stuck in summer. Then again, you can hardly mind that, seeing as summer was so short this year. However, I know that you've most likely missed... Johanna 2004-09-13T13:54:48-05:00 http://greenfieldsfarm.ca/troll/000115.html I was off gallivanting all over the place, and when I got back I devoted my first afternoon to washing the salt crusts off my kayak. So when Lorenz wandered by (ok, he didn't just wander by, he showed up... Johanna 2004-08-22T09:16:15-05:00