If only all monsters were giant elderberries It’s been a messed up week and I am trying to not despair. The Supremes just keep going with the greatest hits. It’s now illegal to be homeless and sleep outdoors in Oregon City because sleeping outdoors when you have nowhere else to go is considered camping on …
Rainy Vacation
I’ve been on vacation since a week ago Friday, but didn’t plan to take a blog vacation. My plans were to spend every morning in the garden but the weather had other ideas. We’ve been alternately hot and humid and cool and humid with the ups and downs punctuated by a lot of rain. I …
Broody
Ethel when she isn't Broody Ethel’s biological clock has decided to tell her she needs to stop laying eggs and hatch some instead. So she’s gone broody. It doesn’t matter that we have no rooster and the eggs will never hatch, her hormones win out. First she sat on her egg, but we took it …
Hail No!
Hail just getting started After I burbled so happily about the garden last week, within hours pea-sized hail pelted from the sky and all I could do was watch. The hailstorm lasted for a good 15 to 20 minutes and covered the garden in a thick layer that took a few hours to completely melt …
Sowing
Self-planted purple columbine The garden is all planted! All the seeds are sown, and, except for a few indoor starts that are still a little small, everything has been planted out. James and I are tuckered out. But it’s the satisfied sort of tuckered out that comes after you’ve done work you love. In an …
