chisel PeeT my cousin. my best friend. his grandfather is my grandfather's brother. so we're a lot alike. we are both urban farmers. we work our butts off. we are married and have kids. i bring him firewood and grass clippings. he gives me inebriation. his wife cheryl gave me lettuce, arugula, and flax seeds but i forgot it. i had to text an apology. 120602 ... PeeT i stopped by his family's farm just before sunset. he didn't think i had beer and so when i showed up with a six pack of sierra nevada he giggled, called me "kevy," and practically wrestled me to the ground with affection. he had been brush hogging the last remaining acre of wild blackberry. now there will be three acres for vegetables. they are thinking about starting a co-op. 120606 ... PeeT he gets down on all fours with his little girl, stella. she's almost walking. she smiles like a flower when she sees me and always touches her index finger to mine. like E.T. chisel says. a new kind of kiss. her eyes are blue like morning. the breath of morning. we ripped out old forsythia to make room for fruit trees. we drank dogfish and discovered a pin oak covered by weed trees. oh wow! 120607 ... PeeT he texted me this morning that he felt like he had been run down by a truck from last night's garden party. we were the last two left by the fire talking philosophy. cheryl buzzed my hair on the sides. it was fun getting my hair cut in front of an audience of friends. some kind of performance art. plus a weird sense of intimacy. 120825 ... PeeT he's trying to buy a rental house, finding it's not easy to do. but figures it's worth the effort. if all we could do was garden our own plots we'd be perfectly happy. 121102 ... PeeT he just kept saying over and over, "this is good. this is really good." 130112 ... log burning fire i'm becoming an uncle to stella. she's about a year and a half. chisel and i sit around in her room and talk baby talk to her, make her toys come alive. we sang songs. i told him i wrote at least a hundred for my girls when they were growing up. this is one chisel wrote about the little monkey we were animating. "my little monkey and me we are a happy family we live in the forest we pee on the tourist my little monkey and me my little monkey and me we live very high in the tree sometimes we come down we run on the ground cause that's where we like to pee my little monkey and me we have very strong arms can't you see we will grab you and squeeze you we don't have to please you my little mother and me" 130113 what's it to you? who go blather from