Post-Funeral Brain Dump

Phew, that was a long week. I haven’t been getting up early to write, instead sleeping until just before I need to be up for work the past two days, thus no update. Chris’ brother and his family were here until yesterday, so the evenings were taken up with sitting on the deck drinking beer [...]

When In Doubt, Make A List

Some bits and pieces: I just woke up from a dream in which we were looking at a penthouse apartment in Chicago. It was an artists cooperative, with a big community garden on the roof. A woman who had the topmost apartment (it was seven floors of so-called penthouses and she had the best one, [...]

There’s Grace in Surrender

Yesterday was one of those days where I had to put aside my own agenda repeatedly. I had big plans for the garden after work, as you might recall from yesterday’s post. No planting or thinning occurred, but comfort and safety and love, these things grew in abundance. Sometimes life derails all of our plans [...]

Tut Tut, It Looks Like Rain

Though it’s supposed to clear out this afternoon. We’ve had clouds and rain since Saturday evening and yesterday dropped down into the 50s. I wish we had our rain barrel system in place, they’d all be full. When I made the rounds of the garden beds in the evening, I imagined that everything would be [...]

Peter Rabbit To My Farmer McGregor

Oh, the cute little cottontail has found my garden. *&#%$ @#$#%. $^*#@. Was out showing a family friend the neatly mulched and weeded beds (and the ones that are a mess of violets and overcrowding) when I noticed that the beet bed was raided. Three quarters of the two-inch tall beets (just growing their second [...]

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