Last year I had some issues with soil nutrients. It’s no lie… The little plants that I had so carefully cultivated in my library got starved when I put them outside. Regardless that this faux pas was not on purpose, the damage was still done and my garden struggled for much of the season. In [...]
View ArticleTGIF… what better way to kick it off than a little Sifl & Olly? I recently found an old CD that a friend gave to me. It was called the “Thrill CD” (back when mixed tapes had converted to mixed CDs… what are we going to do now? mixed playlists??) and track #3 was “My [...]
View ArticleWelcome to the 2012 edition in the collective blog series: Painting Our Black Thumbs Green. You can find other related posts in Veggies Squared. This blog meme is held in conjunction with Christina of The Table has Shoes and Other Ambiguities. Last year we both conducted fairly successful experiments in edible gardening… and this year [...]
View ArticleBack in the summer I took a giant leap of faith and purchased a bread machine. I probably wouldn’t have even considered the purchase, except I had a bunch of reward points from a credit card and I promised myself to only use rewards points for entirely frivolous buys. This was honestly one of the best appliance [...]
View ArticleDrought, flood, locusts… Sounds like an introduction to The Old Testament, right? Sadly it’s just what ordinary farmers and gardeners have to deal with every season. I knew that when I started my garden I could expect to have some stumbling blocks along the way, but I didn’t expect to beating back the hordes right [...]
View ArticleSome of you may know my hubby personally. If you do, then you know he sees relatively little purpose for the internet, or even computers for that matter. He has a Facebook account, but his friends have learned to contact me if they are inviting us somewhere. He has an iPhone, but I haven’t yet [...]
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In 2011 I became a runner, a bread baker, a gardener, and a conformation dog handler. At the beginning of 2011 I struggled with my Magnolia as she recovered from colon cancer. Then, without my running buddy to train with, I finished my very first half marathon. I resolved not to “wuss out” on any [...]
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