A brief respite…
Yesterday was my one day home between my trip to Canada and my trip to Maryland to teach a class for FEMA. It was almost 12 AM by the time I walked in my front door Friday nite (but I guess that is...
View ArticleA hot boyfriend or a hot flash – I’ll take either.
Tonight I am hoping that Mother Nature has found herself a hot boyfriend. A boyfriend who warms the cockles of her sometimes chilly heart. My thought is that her Romeo will help forward my fervent...
View ArticleWeird – level 10.
I am weird, but I don’t have to tell you that. Anyone who has read a handful of my blogs can easily arrive at that conclusion. There are levels of weird though – and let’s face it, the level matters....
View ArticleMy garden companions have returned…
I have been uplifted by three straight days of robin sightings. The robins are back in the area my friends. I have seen a pair of them frequenting my deck. I wonder if they are the babies from last...
View ArticleThe season of dirty fingernails – garden therapy 2013.
I have concluded that my mental health is greatly improved by a day out in the garden. Yesterday was my first real concentrated effort in garden therapy and in the few short hours I invested I was...
View ArticleWhat goes around, comes around.
Last year I had Mike bunny-proof the garden after the adorable little bunny babies that visited us daily had consumed a couple hundred dollars worth of plants by gnawing them down to mere stems. Of...
View ArticleSitting out in the dirt…
I spent many hours in my garden today. I find work in the garden so gratifying and peaceful. It is a chance to think quiet thoughts while doing productive work that results in one of my greatest joys...
View ArticleThe intermittent gardener…
On days when the temperatures are tolerable I do marathon sessions in my garden. I typically tell myself that I will just be out there for two hours and six hours later when I wander back inside I...
View ArticleOne can never have too many flowers…
I took a quick trip to Menards today. I have made a few such trips recently. Truth-be-told, I have been methodically checking in on the Menards’ garden center. Some may call it stalking. The simple...
View ArticleHelp me with this mystery please…
I am not the consummate gardener. I just enjoy flowers and do my best to tend them well and not kill them. I have decent success. I don’t win them all, but I hold my own. I am presently disappointed...
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