San Juan Family

Composting with Worms

mrshannigan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:36:20 +0000

I’ve been reading about this because our gardening soil here in Central WA sucks, it’s got a lot of clay in it and my carrots were short, everything else was… blah. Anyway, I wasn’t impressed. I had a small compost and I’m thinking that I need to start a bigger one. I know we [...]

Almost Home

mrshannigan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:22:25 +0000

Not quite what we planned, but it will work anyway. We were hoping to use the unfortunate incident with our water heater to get our butts in gear and get to the San Juans, so we could actually BE the San Juan Family that we’re supposed to be. However, the water heater was repaired, the [...]

Writers Living in San Juan Islands

mrshannigan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:25:26 +0000

Of course San Juan Islands breed creative writers and artists, I swear, the ground itself is made of brain food. Perhaps it’s an unknown side-effect of breathing lavender. Either way, another San Juan Islands resident, James Marcus Bach of Orcas Island, has been published. His book, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of [...]