Garden producing more than you can eat? Friends and neighbors giving you their vegetable overflow? If you’re like me, your kitchen island looks a little like a Farmer’s Market.. I had two different kinds of beans, some squash, corn, potatoes, and zucchini that had to be eaten or they were gonna go bad. Most of [...]
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July 20, 2009
Gardening..Redneck Style
Look what Aaron has done. Fishing poles for tomato stakes? Hmm, resourceful… Or redneck??.. there’s a fine line. It was his idea to have the little garden this year.. Goose and I weren’t interested this go-round. Last year we had so many tomatoes they were falling off the plants.. and because of that we now [...]
May 14, 2009
May Flowers and Scary Weather
This is what I’ve been up to the last couple weeks…
May Flowers.. At my last house I had 11 rose bushes. I loved them all. But when I moved to my new house, almost 5 years ago, there were none, except a few wild rose bushes in the fence line. I’ve debated with myself about [...]
August 15, 2008
Goosie’s Good Eatin’ Garden
We’ve been working out in the Garden lately.. Well, by working I mean picking a few tomatoes and some bell peppers. Our little garden isn’t much.. 6 tomato and 4 pepper plants is all you’ll find. It’s just a small strip of dirt that runs in between the sidewalk and the backside of our garage [...]
July 21, 2008
Me & Nora
Not much craftiness going on at my house these days. I’ve been hiding out here and there with Nora… You remember Ms. Roberts, don’t you, my all time favorite author? As much as I love to read, I curse myself every time I start a new book. Why, you ask…If I love to read and [...]
April 7, 2008
Warmer Weather = Better Attitude
Yesterday was so beautiful. We all just hung out outside doing much of nothing in our shorts and flipflops. Well, except for Aaron. Poor guy worked in the garage most of the day trying to get Goose’s four-wheeler running properly. Goose and I gathered up all our outside pretties and placed them back in the [...]
April 3, 2008
I’m a Murderer
What happened? I guess my green thumb has been a little too busy sewing that I’ve forgotten my other jobs, like keeping my plants alive and healthy. You remember her from Valentine’s day, right? The beautiful, flowering bundle of love? She was coming along fine until I transplanted her. One day, pretty blooms, the next [...]
