Runaway is finished. It's the story of our 6 month experience in a traveling carnival, working with drunks, thieves, and ex-cons. Patty and I were in our teens and just out of school - it was a great bonding and maturation experience for us.
I took the photo of this carnival at the old Kmart parking lot here in Atlanta on Sunday. I walked through it for a moment, having just finished my book. The smell of cheap generic cigarettes instantly took me back to our life there.
There were mostly rides and ride jocks with very few games. There were a few joints . . . but it was afternoon, the guys weren't ready to start calling and applying the pressure. They were still setting up their joints and drinking coffee.
Patty and I and the girls are all going up to Tennessee for the entire month of June - it's very exciting. We'll finish the addition, side the building, and either get a roof on the barn or begin plumbing and electrical for the cabin. We have to drive two cars, because I've got 7 huge windows for the addition I need to haul.
Mishka isn't going. He'll be watched by a friend. He's kind of blown it for himself up there for now.
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I'm so glad I found your blog!
ReplyDeleteWe currently live in Los Angeles, but we're packing up and moving to middle Tennessee this month. We're going to be homesteading too. We love reading everything we can on the subject.
A great idea for your gerbils is to feed them your left over raw veggies (carrot ends, cucumbers pieces, discarded apple cores, corn cobs, melon rinds) as well as edible weeds and plants that grow wild--like dandelion leaves. The kids will have fun foraging for their meals. Each morning, my oldest son feeds our pet rats all of the beetles that collect in our inflatable pool every night. The rats love to eat beetles. We just put them in their cage floating in a bowl of water. The rats fish them out and eat them. Grubs and other insects are also good to feed the gerbils if you find them in your garden. We do supplement with raw grains and sunflower seeds as well, but this cuts down on the amount we go through.
Cool Michele, thanks for all the info on gerbils. My kids have an open cage they set outside and the gerbils eat all the grass and weeds down to the ground.
ReplyDeleteI was actually born and raised in Orange County. What part of LA do you live in? Most of my relatives are still out there.
Where in Tennessee are you guys planning on homesteading?