Season Changing

I can already feel the beginning of the season shifting here.  I’ve been trying to paint the outside of our house, or least get the worst of the painting done this season before winter hits.  It’s a lot of painting for one person, let alone a middle aged woman with a compromised shoulder, but I’m [...]

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Dog Days of Summer

Dog Days of Summer We are now in the “Dog Days of Summer” at least out where I live.  The seasonal temperatures reach into the high 30’s and the wind is hot, like a hair-blower turned up on the ‘high’ setting.  It shrivels the leaves off the trees.  Summer veggies aren’t happening, the wind is too [...]

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Gardening this Year

While I’ve been running around town, trying to be a reporter, my poor garden has been left pretty much alone, except for the odd supplemental watering. This is the first year since I started gardening that I haven’t been out there trying to keep the weeds down, planting, harvesting etc. 

But I do have a few [...]

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Spring has Sprung

It seems like a long time since I’ve done a blog entry, but it probably has only been a few days.  I’ve been filling in as a reporter for our local paper while the editor is laid up with back problems.  For the most part it’s been fun, although this week it was a bit [...]

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Spring has Sprung

 I’m in a good mood these days.    Spring is no longer a ‘rumour‘, but a reality.  My tulips are up about six inches.  No sign of my crocuses yet, but that might mean the squirrels have found them.  I didn’t protect them with any blood meal this year since I discovered my two little doggies [...]

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Challenges of Gardening

 
Today I’d like to blog about gardening here at my place.  If there’s anyone reading this who doesn’t actually know me, and hasn’t been to my home, you should know that gardening here is a real challenge for a number of reasons.   
First of all, the entire property is made up of rock.  Our house [...]

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