Do you want to know what I was doing at 11:00PM last night, when I should have been snuggled in a warm bed next to an equally warm husband? I was repotting tomato plants. *sheesh* The things I do for… Read more ›

devastation – (n) : the act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste That there, pictured to the right, is a branch of a magnolia. Not just any magnolia, but a magnolia that is literally bigger… Read more ›

Well, that does it. I just did in my last pair of jeans that still had clean knees. I didn’t mean to. I was just walking into the house, groceries in arms and clean jeans on. But I spotted the… Read more ›

My little seedlings have graduated from the nursery and have moved on to the paper cups. They are spreading their little true leafs and, so far, they have not caused me too much trouble. Like the good Catholic that I… Read more ›

This is all the kiwis I was able to harvest from my kiwi vines this year. Despite my best efforts to keep the late spring frost from killing the blossoms, the left me with only this little handful of kiwis… Read more ›

I use to keep herbs indoors all the time when I lived in apartments. But then we bought this house and then I had no decent windows to try to grow herbs in. No sunny windows = really dead herbs.… Read more ›

There is a monster lurking in my vegetable bed. The surviving vegetables are quaking and huddling close together for safety. If I had to guess, the monster has a giant, dull but lethal machete and my cabbages were his first… Read more ›

What has Hanna learned so far this year when it comes to her tomatoes? The same thing that Hanna learned last year and swore up and down that she would not let it happen again. Let’s all say it together… Read more ›

It is one of those subjects that just doesn’t talked about much. Oh sure, you hear about it afterwards, when the deed is done, but before hand… We whisper about it with our significant others or close family members. Plan… Read more ›