Here I went and had another unintentional blog-cation. We’ve been having second summer for weeks with temperatures as much as 20 degrees F above normal, whatever normal means these days. Yesterday, Saturday, was a record high of 91F/ 33C. I am grateful that today is cooler and we are getting a cold front—finally—that will tip …
Category: Gardening
Intimations of Things to Come
Hello Friends! The military continues to occupy Washington, D.C. but not without valiant resistance. The President’s claims that the occupation is due to high crime rates is a big fat lie. There are numbers and reports from reliable sources that all indicate crime rates are dropping. Not coincidentally, the President threatens to send the National …
Still Here!
Hello Friends! I'm still here! I did not intend to take any time away but the garden has been demanding and so has life in general. You may have heard Minneapolis is once again in mourning after a mass shooting of children attending a back-to-school mass . And of course the hate-filled people in the …
The Sound of Monarch Wings Flapping
The milkweed has been blooming for a few weeks now and it is utterly delightful to see all the monarch butterflies flitting around the garden. I think of butterflies as slow and gentle beings, failing to remember that monarchs migrate thousands of miles every year. The speed at which they move through the garden is …
Hoe! Hoe! Hoe!
Friends, perhaps you will be astonished, but after all these years of gardening I finally discovered how amazing a hoe is. I know! What took me so long? For starters, I never thought I had a use for it. A hoe is intended for weeding and my garden beds are so packed with plants that …
