Brushlands - very liveable area - which have hazelnut trees (hazelnuts) and blackberry bushes (edible blackberries) and rose bushes (that have edible rosehips) - and I imported some of the Mediterranean pine saplings from the next island over (with the pueblo). The house is made of the pine wood and some yellow cobbled travertine for the roof. I also found the mese trees with the mese fruit for the very first time, way up on the top of the mountains - they glow, until you pick the fruit. That is pretty cool - the wood is a bright golden color, even more yellow than the stone I ended up using for this roof.
Around this area I found : cotton, hemp, onion, grapes, sunflowers, parsley, strawberry and spinach. In chest hampers and a dungeon chest I found planting carrots, pumpkin seeds, garlic, bell pepper and pineapple. The grapes were way up on top of one of the mountain hills here, and the cotton was near that. The strawberries, onions, spinach and parsley were growing down in the valleys. There is a savannah a long way back behind those hills, covered in sunflowers. Usually the pumpkins are on the savannah as well, but I had never gotten seeds from one so far. There are chickens and eggs, sheep and pigs, and of course as there is cotton growing naturally it would have been easy to make the fishing rod and live off of fish. The spinach was a nice surprise - I only found that in one other place in the world and I lost that first house - so I hadn't seen it since then. It doesn't look like much growing wild, but I broke it anyway as I didn't remember what it was, and it was spinach!
It seems in order to make any use out of the pumpkin I will really have to go back and get my barley plants from the alder swamp and hope I can propagate them further out -- I still haven't done that as I almost lost them twice from bad propagation there. But, that was before I had my bucket of water and could plant more. It's also a long way back along the road - halfway around the circle, maybe. I've been hoping to find barley naturally again since that first bit was from a hamper chest - but I haven't yet.
// In real life: Rolling along, getting the work done and the bills paid. Ordered some spices I had once before, because Mark wanted a computer part as well. I made fried rice with water chestnuts, red pepper, onion, zucchini and green peas last night for Esme and I, using the last bit of the beef with rice from this last Monday's dinner. Studying Japanese and Finnish.
We bought a big butternut squash at the store and I showed Esme how to peel it and chop it into small pieces to freeze for use in meals. I am thinking about making something like pasta carbonara on Sunday, but with a different cheese.
I have to kick myself to put more coolant in the car when it is not hot - as at idle it has been going a bit over the center again and it started doing that a bit before it really needed coolant last time. I've got it in there, but I need to do it. The Haynes manual for that car came and lo and behold, it has a picture of the undercarriage in it - with the transmission items labelled in the picture - I couldn't find that anywhere when I was trying to figure out what to call a certain part talking to the mechanic.
The weather is finally nice, I should repair that hose in the yard and plant my kale and other seeds that I ordered a few weeks ago. It's going to rain quite a bit this week. Four years ago I had edible big leaves already from planting kale early.
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