So many apple blossoms My brother-in-law and his wife stopped the night at our house last weekend on their way to the UP (that’s midwest talk for the upper peninsula of Michigan) and they stopped again this weekend on their way home to Albuquerque. It was great to see them, they are good people, but …
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Weather Purgatory
Some weeks feel interminably long and this was one of them. I can’t even say why, but James and my coworkers and students in the library were also lamenting the very long week. Sia, who can't see where she is most of the time Maybe it’s because the weather is stuck in between seasons. I …
Garden Casualties
Lily-of-the-valley, indestructible While Professor Plum has survived and is growing by the day, there have been some garden casualties. One of the black currants had begun leafing out a little early during the April heat wave and when it got cold again a few days later, all of the little buds died. I’ve been hoping …
And We Walked in Fields of Gold
Well, maybe not walked, more like crawled. And not exactly a field, more like a grassy park area next to picnic tables. There was a field adjacent, a baseball field belonging to an elementary school. Gold though, there was plenty of gold. We caught peak dandelion. Within less than half an hour, we had filled …
Gardening Weekend!
It’s gardening weekend! Whoop! Whoop! Last year during COVID lockdown the Friends School Plant Sale was cancelled. It was the first Mother’s Day weekend in something like 17 years that we did not have a crazy garden sale weekend. Well they are back this year in a COVID appropriate way that turned out to be …
