This is the time of year stores have potted flowers at ridiculously low prices like this pot of miniature daffodils Dave bought me this week, lightly fragrant and a beautiful spot of color. This little pot has six or seven blooms, all with the golden yellow trumpets and pure yellow perianth, … [Read more...]
My To-Do List: Weed, Prune, Clean Up The Garden
What does your To-Do List look like? Do you have to weed? Thin those exuberant seedlings? Cut back overachieving ground cover? Remove volunteer saplings? Here is my To-Do List: 1. Weed. Get Rid of the Wild Morning Glories! These are horrible weeds that wind themselves around my … [Read more...]
Monica and Cats Who Eat House Plants – Azaleas and Shamrocks
Monica is a small calico with a big personality. She's Dave's cat, although as he says, she isn't going to take a chance and I make a perfectly good back up. Right now Dave is out of town helping his brother recover from a broken hip and Monica is acting up. Yesterday she kept eating the … [Read more...]
Water Jugs for Just In Case – Country Living and Planning Ahead
We live in the country. Oh, not a wild, remote, thickly forested wilderness, more a rural road with a few houses on it, one farmer, a golf course and some woods. We do have a well for water and a septic tank. The one problem with wells is that pumps do not run without electricity. A power outage … [Read more...]