Pot Pourri

A short posting today because it is Farm and Fun at the NRT from 10-2 today with lots of animals and activities for kids.

Also at NRT I'm back in charge of egg sales. The price at the refrigerator in the office will remain $3 for a while, but will definitely be higher at the Farmer's Market when it opens on May 21 due to increased feed costs. We will no longer be recycling egg cartons because all cartons will now indicate the date the eggs were collected. Eggs refrigerated at the temperatures we use are "good" for several months, but we want to sell "great" eggs so we will discard unsold eggs after 10 days. Production is up and bad whether has kept people from visiting Sheep Pasture so there are always eggs for sale for now.

Yes, I am aware that when Fanny Holt Ames was reading about the Maharani mentioned in yesterday's post she was reading about someone who had many features in common with her own circumstances-a young woman who married a wealthy man much older than herself.

Gardening suggestion: if you plant a whole bunch of seeds from the cabbage family you'd better put a label on them. Right now I can't tell the difference between broccoli rabe, chard, or radishes! Thank God my beet "greens" are actually red.

After listening to South Coast Rail's Kristina Egan on Tuesday, I'm concerned that al Qaeda's rail terror plot may simply be to pay for lobbyists to push the Stoughton alternative. Think about it, it'll waste $2 billion of much needed government funds, devastate communities, and damage the environment. What more could a terrorist ask for? "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

Working on a piece for a new Historical Society booklet. Did you know we had several men listed for Easton who served in the Union Navy? The problem is that many of them are not really Eastoners (or is that Eastonites) since anyone could accept a bounty to fill out a town's service quota. More on this tomorrow.