I am a child of the eighties. I am also a child of a child of the sixties. What this means is that I grew up with a pretty firm belief that the Russian and communists will kill us all,… Read more ›
Back in the 80s and 90s, some people sported something called a “cocaine pinky”*. This is a pinky nail that has been grown out to an unusually long length so that the person the cocaine pinky was attached to could… Read more ›
I grow ALOT of things in containers. I grow so many things in containers that I believe that my mailman may be petitioning for a suspension of mail delivery to my house in the summer months due to the fact… Read more ›
Tonight, I am going to feast upon my full sized cucumber. One of my favorite ways to prepare cucumber in in the form of Quick Pickles. Easy recipe. 1 tasty fresh cucumber, sliced Splash or two (three or four) of… Read more ›
The weather is getting much hotter and this means that I retreat to gardening at night in order to keep my favorite past time enjoyable. I learned to appreciate working at night when I was a teenager. I worked in… Read more ›
Finally! Some tasty tidbits from my garden. A cucumber is miraculously ready to eat. This is a particularly monumental occasion for me. Though I religiously plant cucumbers every year, I am lucky if I get one little biddy cucumber from… Read more ›
Oh yeah… that “they are brutal and aggressive does not even begin to describe their behavior“. One of those little beasts fricking stung me today, 3 times. One of those times was on the nose! My Nose! The right side… Read more ›
Any gardener who keeps a compost pile knows that they should give a silent nod of thanks to that glorious rotting pile of refuse that will become the building blocks of next year’s flowers and vegetables. It’s a given. In… Read more ›
There is an old saying that says, ask and you shall receive. I personally think this saying should be updated to read “Ask, and for a small fee, you shall receive”, but today I was proven wrong. Yesterday, I wondered… Read more ›
I have noticed something about the bees here in Cleveland. They are not normal bees. They seem to be bees on steroids. Though I bet if you asked them, they never have, to the best of their knowledge, used steroids,… Read more ›
