November 2022

11/7 - Listened to Gathering Moss and scraped moss samples for propagation. Got really sad when she talked about picking her daughter up from the airport.

11/17 - Cut brambles, felled three big mimosas north of the house with my pocket saw, cut path from the huge downed tree (nurse tree) to old road. Collected mushroom and mycelium samples from deer and honey mushrooms and put them as offerings on the little gingko ghost tree. Brought up turkey tail samples for ID.

11/18 - Grandma Frances stopped by and I asked her about generations in Gatlinburg. She’s 7th, so I’m 9th and Elinor is 10th. She told me a story about her second husband, my papa Gene, getting into genealogy and tracing her family tree. “Out of eight great-grandparents, five are descended from Martha Jane Huskey Ogle. I said ‘don’t look there!’”

11/25 - Sick today. Brewed myself in the bath with a bundle from the yard. Lemon balm, bee balm, orange mint, rosemary, lemon thyme, turkey tail and lavender. Salt and rose. Reading the Artist’s Way for the first time, embarrassment, grief and jealousy.