Whooo-hooo! It’s party planting time.
I know that you’re digging out from feet of snow and shivering huddled around a cup of coffee while your runny-nosed, snow-bound children run ragged through a house that hasn’t been aired out in months, but come on. I’m ready to get down and dirty dig in some dirt.
My garden is [...]
The same deluge that’s been teasing out the ragweed and the thistles in miserable numbers has been working wonders on our garden. Instead of popping out with one of two nuggets of goodness, vines are bursting forth in clusters of fruitfulness. I should be pleased. I should be grateful. But I’m sulking.
Sure, the tomatoes are [...]
I haven’t asked them directly, but I think there’s a chance that my parents–and I say this with deep respect–don’t like peaches. Perhaps my memories are tainted by that fateful rhubarb incident, but I don’t know. Inundated as I’ve been lately with the juicy orbs, not one childhood image of a peach comes to mind. [...]
Read more...Thank you to all for the plethora of suggestions on how to beat the seasonal snotties. I take it you were not impressed with my plan of barring the doors and windows and never venturing forth into polite company again?
Worries over me becoming a hermit are groundless. Why just today I strolled out through the [...]
We put in some time in the garden this weekend, and I think I finally understand those people who think slapping bugs and pulling weeds is relaxing. It was delightful. I sat myself down in the wet dirt and wrestled with the overgrown jungle in our backyard. There was no traffic concerning me. I didn’t [...]
Read more...There is a chance, I suppose, that since I’ve deserted it our sweet little garden has runneth over, but I’m not holding my breath. I’m visiting my mother, and she has shown me how a real garden behaves. It’s not that my cute little berry patch back in Colorado isn’t special; it is. But next [...]
Read more...It’s time. We are ready to hit the road, Jack.
Heck yeah we’re bringing Jack; who’d you think was going to do all the driving and the refueling and the feeding and entertaining of whining kids? OK, not really. It would be delightful to have imaginary handy Jack along, but it’ll just be the four of [...]
On the plus side, the unexpected plethora of water falling from the sky has turned our arid yard into a backyard jungle. It’s just been a bit unfortunate for my little swimmers, who have been turning blue with cold while dodging thunderstorms at practice. Acadia addressed the issue by pairing her swim suit with cowboy [...]
Read more...Ok so I’m starting to lose it. School days are done and summer is upon us and I’ve got three weeks of swim team and jump practice to coordinate before packing up the car and turning our (station) wagon west east not to mention figuring out hotel stops and food and oh yeah, I’m losing [...]
Read more...So it looks like I planted the spinach a little too late. And the lettuce. And the cucumbers were perhaps to fragile as tiny sprouts to withstand my man-handling of them into the garden. Either way, as far as veggies go so far, looks like I missed the boat.
The boat I was trying to catch [...]