First of all, in case you didn’t know, I take a relaxed approach to gardening. What that means is if something sprouts up that I don’t recognize, I don’t immediately pull it out. As you might imagine, this leads to a garden that gives the impression of, well, I call it natural, you may call [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garden’
Weekend Gardener: Little Surprises
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged garden, weekend gardener on May 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Weekend Gardener: better late than never
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged garden on June 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When we moved into this house, the garden was pretty much a blank slate. The picture on the bottom left is the ‘before’ picture to the one you see above in the header. What was here was overgrown: That first summer was a killer but I got the yard [...]
Weekend Gardener
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged garden on May 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The year before last (our first year in the house) I planted three tomatoes; I was inundated with fruit. I couldn’t keep up and several rotted on the vine. I hate that. Last year I planted two. I think I may have gotten half a dozen tomatoes and not from the plants I planted but [...]
How hot was it today?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged garden, summer on May 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When the rosebuds begin to wilt before they’ve even bloomed: It’s hot. The dianthus isn’t too perky today. Do you remember water from the hose? I have a confession. The first picture I took of her like this she didn’t have on a shirt. I thought it was adorable so I grabbed a shirt, put [...]
Feeling a little better
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged editing, flowers, garden, sick on March 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In fact, looking forward to taking a shower and getting out of the house. There is the requisite grocery shopping of course (kids insist on eating whereas I could live on coffee, toast and the occasional sandwich) but I want to go to the garden store and buy some bedding plants too. Flowers make me [...]
Weekend Gardener
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged garden on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my faults/strengths is that I’m a jack of all trades. This wouldn’t be a bad thing except the second part of that phrase which haunts me. And so, when I decided to write a blog, I couldn’t choose what exactly I wanted to blog about. Parenting? Writing? Gardening? They are all a big [...]
Sure there are a few scenes still to be written
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged garden, manuscript on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
but the main, important story progressing scenes are all done. Just shy of 65,000 words and if I wasn’t so tired I’d be yelling YIPPEE! It’s so much easier to type than yell. : ) My mom (don’t have a nickname for her except mom) took D4 for three hours, I was going to say glorious [...]
My garden
Posted in Uncategorized, writing, tagged garden, plants, trees on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the day I’ve set aside to (finally) go outside and tend to my garden. I really need to get the sweet peas planted and start the lettuce/spinach before much longer. My garden takes up much of my mental/physical energy but I think it gives back as much as it takes. One of my [...]
