From the category archives:

Gardening

Remember pagers? Oh, I’ve been paged! Now I need to get to a phone.
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With summer nearing its end my teens seem to want to spend every last second doing either nothing, or hanging out with friends. I feel a rush inside, things to get ready for that probably have already been taken care of. Polly [...]

' August 24th, 2009 at 01:23pm 2 comments

In the days since I last posted here, boy have I slipped back down.  It seems like one thing after another. The washing machine broke; we were able to scrounge up the money to buy a used one, and then the dryer broke. Our kids asked when we were going to get a new one [...]

' August 5th, 2009 at 08:40pm 6 comments

A bottle collection under a tree. I like to imagine the person who lives in this house.

Camel Filters I presume?

Danger! All animals in need of a home must come to me. I have a love hate relationship with pet stores. They break my heart, but I always have to stop and look when I pass [...]

' July 8th, 2009 at 02:36am 5 comments

This might come across like reading my twitter, if I had a twitter, but here goes anyway.
I absolutely loved reading your comments and I am not just saying that. I always get very excited when you lovely people comment and I read my comments over and over. Feel free to diagnose me accordingly ; today [...]

' July 31st, 2008 at 12:41pm 4 comments

“We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
Joni Mitchell
I highly recommend the gardening method set forth by Mel Bartholomew. In addition to the aforementioned website, his book is available on Amazon. When we first bought this house, I had visions of turning the [...]

' September 20th, 2007 at 12:04pm 2 comments