A quiet week on the garden front. After my seed catalog binge I’ve calmed down. It’s time to be fallow for a little while, well, at least until after Winter Solstice. Then I will be eager to order seeds and make my seed starting calendar. That’s always fun. I mentioned last week about my neighbor …
A Little Trim
What a tiring week it was. We had a little snow and a lot of cold and wind. Wednesday there was a hazardous wind warning and I biked home from work in sustained winds of 30 mph/48 kph with higher wind gusts. The highest gust recorded happened about the time I arrived home and clocked …
Garden Dreaming
Autumn was long and warm, and then suddenly it was over. Upper 30sF one day and the next 20F with single digit wind chill. My body was not ready for such a drastic change. Mid-morning at work I’d get ravenously hungry. What’s going on? And then I remembered, oh yeah, biking in the really cold …
A Quickie
So many things swirling in my head as the day wanes and there remains much to do. So this will be short today. There are still flowers blooming in the garden. And on our way to meet a friend for breakfast this morning I saw roses, sweet alyssum, and black-eyed Susans blooming as though it …
A Little Rough
Hello friends. It’s been a rough week. When I woke up Wednesday morning I didn’t expect there to be any conclusive election results. I got up and showered and got dressed and then went into the kitchen for breakfast in complete and unconcerned bliss. James was cooking breakfast and already knew, was trying to figure …
