Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
We're good at recycling. And we try to reuse as much as possible, although composting has been a failure. What I want to do more of in 2012 is reducing. If we don't buy it in the first place, that's...
View ArticleBack Home
We're back from Italy. We had a great trip and saw Etruscan tombs, the ancient Roman city of Ostia Antica, the Capitoline Museum and much more. Now, after travel and the holidays, it's time for life...
View ArticleGorgeous Day
I had a picnic lunch out in the sunshine today. It doesn't feel like February at all and it makes me want to start all my vegetable seeds. This time last year I had seeds sprouting and it really was...
View ArticleBracket Broken Beyond Repair
Chris has already won our March Madness pool. I'll have to wash the dishes for a week. That's what I get for picking Murray St. to win. But if you can't pick who you want to root for, that's no...
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Seedlings
The snow peas are up in the garden, the fruit trees are flowering, and my seedlings in the window sill are starting to really look like healthy little plants. Hello, spring.
View ArticleSpring Projects Never End
We don't have that many sunny spots in our yard. You'd think we'd get to a point where the gardening would be done. For some reason, every time I check something off the garden list, something else...
View ArticleStrawberries
May 5th the first ripe strawberries were plucked from the garden. Sadly, we need to put down some straw because the bugs are finding them before we are. However, I'm still happy to have red, ripe...
View ArticleFox
We have a neighborhood fox that comes at night to bark at Loki. Fortunately, she doesn't bark back. But it is the weirdest noise. I recorded it today so you could hear it too.MAH00004
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Post Hunt 2012
Yesterday was the 5th annual Post Hunt. I've been looking forward to this one for a while because we had to miss the last two. This is a zany puzzle-solving scavenger hunt that draws thousands of...
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The Pride Before the Fall
Now is the time when the garden is promising and exciting. Everything is growing! There are cucumbers and tomatoes just a week or to from ready to eat. Any time now a groundhog should attack or who...
View ArticleReady for Summer
The garden is coming along nicely. I picked our first cucumber on Sunday. I'm already picking the raspberries and wineberries and the blackberries in the park are turning pink. We have lots of green...
View ArticleGarden Lessons
Peas just aren't worth it. They're a pain to trellis, the pods are hard to spot, shelling takes forever, you have to plant a lot to get a decent side dish, and they need their own space since they...
View ArticleHere We Go
And the garden issues for the year are forming. The cucumbers are looking a lot better after I pruned and sprayed them to treat their case of powdery mildew. On the same day I also picked 5...
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How to Choose a Nursery Veggie Plant
When choosing perennials, I tend to go to the garden store and choose the largest and healthiest looking plant I can find in the size pot I can afford. It has done me well. However, this past weekend...
View ArticleIt's Hot Outside
Supposedly the heat wave has broken. It's still hot out. The garden seems to like the heat, though, as long as we turn on the water every now and then. So far we've picked about a dozen cucumbers, 6...
View ArticleHints of Fall
Yesterday was the first day that the breeze felt a little cooler and the sun seemed a little bit lower in the sky. The winter squashes have started forming on the vines. Fall isn't quite here but now...
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Time for Doctor Who
And what better way to celebrate the new episode than with a drink we've called the Tardis:And the garden has produced it's first butternut squash:
View ArticleCheck Back in December
I am not happy that it's been so long since my last post. In fact, I have many things that I should have posted, including some really nice pictures from our trip to Assateague Island. And yet,...
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We're Back
The Japan trip was fantastic. I've posted pictures and will soon add captions.And now that we're home, suddenly it's the holiday season and we're in the rush to get everything ready for Christmas and...
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