Gosh, gang, I’m really sorry there weren’t more posts this week. I’ve got 25 balls in the air and none of them have quite landed yet so I’m never quite ready to blog about any of them and they keep me too busy to blog about anything else. But I do love a good Friday list, so let’s go for ...
There are times when you wonder what someone was thinking when they decided to make something one way or the other. I now believe that this is exactly why spray paint was invented. I ordered this pretty light for the office / back room (heretofore just called the office even though there’s really not that much work that happens back ...
I’ve got most of my seeds ordered (and delivered), I just ordered some more willow twigs to start this year and I’ve got my eye on this dogwood and have come *this close* to ordering it about three times but I can’t think of where I’d put it. Cornus kousa ‘Rutpink’ This is the time of year that I really ...
Last fall I discovered how to get a bird’s eye view of my yard via Google Earth and it was rather enlightening. I discovered that the bed on the north side of the house is all kinds of wrong. I already sort of knew that that area had issues. It never really felt right. It was too deep, and the ...
I spoke at a local school’s career day yesterday. It was, um, odd. And then I looked around and found out that of the other people speaking at the career day, two were good friends a year older than me, and another two were two years old and two years younger than me. And I though, huh, I guess we ...
Before there was a vegetable garden in my life there were tomatoes. I first grew tomatoes in 10-inch plastic pots in the first apartment I lived in after college. The pots weren’t big enough and the squirrels grabbed every fruit the moment it appeared. When I moved to my next apartment, I tried to grow a tomato in a north-facing ...
I’ve missed Friday Finds two weeks in a row and I didn’t want to let this one pass completely so I bring you a rare Sunday post. I’ll dispense with the usual preamble and get right into it. Here’s some of the best of what I was loving on the web last week. New House New Home photo Heather shared ...
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I have so many blog posts to finish up and run, but it’s deadline week in the real world and unlike past years when I’ve worked over Memorial Day weekend because of that deadline, this year I decided to take the whole weekend off. It was a great decision and an absolutely stellar weekend but […]
It’s been a busy, busy, busy week so some of my planned posts didn’t come to fruition. I spent almost all day helping to set up our master gardener plant sale. It is our major (only?) fund-raiser for the organization and it is a huge production but I enjoy it (and I get the majority […]
I thought it might be time to check in on my little weed-killing project. If you recall, this was an area of the yard that we are trying to reclaim for a bit of grass. It was overrun by weeds, primarily creeping Charlie, dame’s rocket and garlic mustard weed. If you look back at this […]
Some women have a thing for shoes. Not me; I have about four pairs of shoes plus a few speciality pairs. Other women have a thing for purses. That’s not me either. I have one purse that rarely leaves the car. My weakness is gadgets. And gardening gadgets? Forgettaaboutit. Here are a few of the […]
The garden is a demanding mistress this time of year. Despite our early spring when I thought I had a head start on gardening projects, I feel I’m behind again. The beds still need to be edged, plants moved, plants planted and, of course, weeding, weeding, weeding. Daffodils are fading and need to be tied […]
The relationship I have with daffodils is one that has evolved over the last decade. For a time, I thought of daffodils as the ugly stepsister to the showier and more varied queen of spring bulbs, the tulip. They were something I merely tolerated because I wanted something blooming but knew that tulips would be […]
It rained all weekend here which is so frustrating when there is so much to be done in the garden. The hostas, however, seem to be loving it as a I swear they’ve all grown 3 inches overnight. If and when the sun ever comes out I imagine everything will take off. Given the lack […]
We’re coming up on a decade of living in this house during which I’ve added or rejuvenated more than a few garden beds. I seem to work in cycles of creating a new area to garden in about every other year. But never, in all that time have I tried to create more grass. We […]
You may notice that the comment form has disappeared. I’m so incredibly frustrated with this system (Intense Debate). I lost all my comments when I switched to it and now I tried to do a “required upgrade” and I appear to have lost everything else. Anyway, I apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully the situation […]
Last week I told you about how I found ramps (wild leeks) in our back yard and got a few more from a nice neighbor. I could hardly wait to try them but it was the middle of a busy week so I had to take a pass on all the fancy schmancy recipes I […]
Remember those corny posters you would buy through the book club at school? (Am I aging myself here?) They were crappy mini posters that came folded so there was always a big crease on them and they featured inspirational sayings and cute pictures of kittens and puppies. I generally hung them next to my Michael […]
We ran into our neighbors who live at the end of our road this weekend while we were out walking the dogs. They are lovely people but they don’t live at this house year-round so we don’t get to see them very often. As we were chatting (mostly about what a pain garlic mustard weed […]
Brightening up the corner of my desk at work today. I’m so stingy about cutting flowers from my garden but I never regret it when I do. It’s unbelievable to me how much this collection of daffs is making me happy today.
I’m not an overly organized person, but I aspire to be. That aspiration is perpetuated by my affinity for organizing systems. I could never go to The Container Store because I’d top my credit card limit in a matter of hours. I’ve organized a few spaces that needed it pretty badly in this house, but […]
