The weather was very nice over the weekend, and I spent as much of it as possible outside in the garden. My husband, the kids and I all worked together, planting, weeding, cleaning up, and doing some light construction and repairs. It was a very productive weekend, over all! I thought it would be...
Read more →I woke up this morning with a fierce, un-ignorable (I know..that’s not really a word.) craving for donuts. I wrote for a while, and then finally gave in and started looking for a good donut recipe. My main requirements: it had to be fast (I wanted them NOW — which meant no yeast donuts,...
Read more →So, this pallet gardening trend….. I see the allure of it. It’s cheap. It’s recycling (kind of … more on that later). It’s a way to garden vertically. It’s new and different (or it was before Pinterest got a hold of the idea). Not my thing, but that’s fine. The first thing I thought...
Read more →I went on a mini tirade on Twitter earlier today. A popular blog posted about horticultural “crimes” — photos of shrubs trimmed in ways the blogger saw fit to make fun of. Posts like this bother me quite a bit. Giving the blogger the benefit of the doubt, I suppose they’re supposed to help...
Read more →UPDATE: Thank you so much to everyone who entered! I LOVED reading about what your garden has taught you — I’m considering collecting some of my favorites into a post later this week. The lucky winner is commenter #87, Helen, who said: “I’ve learned to do things in pieces or steps, that I can’t...
Read more →I don’t know how often I’ll write here about Mouse, but I do know that writing has always made me feel better, and right now, boy do I need to feel better. I was unprepared for how hard losing Mouse would hit me. I was talking to my husband about it last night. We...
Read more →I still remember the day we brought her home. I had it in my head to get another kitten. We went to the local pet store where we’d bought Bug (our black cat) and, originally, I had my eye on a fluffy little black cat. The fluffy one had a littermate, a little gray...
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