How does the garden grow? Better than the blog, that’s for sure

Boy, howdy, my blog Mojo, she is gone. I am beyond flummoxed about where my urge to purge has up and sauntered off to, and I have no idea if she’s coming back any time soon or not. I feel abandoned. Or maybe I’m just busy? Either way, it’s kind of a bummer. I miss [...]

An update of sorts

Shifting sands beneath my feet, storms rolling by to the north, the south and then overhead, giving the air a good pollen clean and the garden a frequent soak so I have not had to stand outside with the hose very much this season.
My brother is here for a few weeks, taking a ceramics workshop [...]

Mercury in retrograde or just my luck

I had a stomach thing going on yesterday so kept myself at home so I wouldn’t pass it on. It’s running (pun intended) through Lila’s school for two weeks now and Chris came home last night with it as well. I was mild, and actually thought I might get my house kind of prepared for [...]

Sweatiest Saturday so far

You know, I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed with the garden and yard work right now. Something is making quick work of eating the foliage on so many plants — both in the woods and in the vegetable beds. There are these red beetles all over things like my spinach, the loose strife, rudbeckia, the entire patch [...]

Weekend garden update

Every inch of my body now hurts. I spent yesterday in non-stop physical labor digging holes to plant the fruit trees — one hole needed the help of a spud bar (a long, heavy, metal pole with a spike on the end that you lift up and slam down into the bottom of the hole [...]

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