with a book! (so what else is new LOL)

MaryJane Butters has written the book that I sooo *wish* I had written: MaryJane’s Ideabook-Cookbook-Lifebook: For the Farmgirl in All of Us. It’s filled with gardening information, sewing and cooking and crafts, even games for kids like jumprope ditties. I was so thrilled as I showed hubby the page on “Growing Your Own Gasoline”. (See, we wouldn’t need to rely on other countries’ oil if all of us did that! When you think about it that way, world peace isn’t that big of a leap anymore!) Man oh man what I wouldn’t give for a week with my family at MaryJane’s farm. Better yet take one of their courses and have *our* own farm. I stayed up ’til 2 this morning to read this book from cover to cover. WOOOOOWWWW. (Oooh, and ignorant me, I didn’t even know she already had a show on the Food Network — I first heard of MaryJane Butters when I was doing all this research into organic food and farmily — whoa typo, but it works, I meant “farming families”!)

…sigh…

That and Monty Don’s The Complete Gardener — the book that drummed the mantra into my head (and hubby’s via my mouth) “Two acres! Just two acres! That’s all I’d need!”…. both on my bedside table right now…

…. it’s enough to make a girl want to weep. And actually *want* to subscribe to cable after YEEEEARS of refusing to let that animal into the house!