Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have 7 tomato plants (early girl, lemon boy, a couple of mystery “Best of Show”, cherry, sweet 100) and a tomatillo plant in the ground underneath the wall-o-waters. There are even blossoms on a couple of the tomato plants.
I took some of my broccoli seedlings out too, they’re the dark ones in the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been waiting for a good rainstorm so I could post this, and today we had a beautiful refreshing storm that left everything smelling clean and fresh. I was busy driving, and didn’t have my camera with me to capture the storm only the after of a cloudy sky and drops on the crabapple [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After working in the yard today and realizing how many dandelions we have around I’ve decided to name the garden Dandelion Farm. If anyone is looking for dandelion seeds let me know, I’m the place to go.
As for the garden update, things are going well. Peas have just barely sprouted, I have some [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Those of you who have known me for a while know that we’ve spent years trying to reclaim the yard. We’ve doubled the amount of space in the front yard by cutting down some unwieldy shrubs that were growing into the eaves and we’re slowly making progress in the backyard. I’ve learned several [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For as long as possible, animals have been apart of our lives. When The Scientist was a baby and started having so many medical problems that looked like allergies but didn’t test like them I began to wonder about our decision to have so many animals (cats to keep the mice from the grainery [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spring is so close to being in full color. The buds are there, the feeling is so strong that you can almost taste it.
*achoo*
Maybe you are just tasting the pollen in the air. Weather channels now have pollen count information so you can know which days are going to be bad in your [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve held off on updating this hoping I’ve a warmer update at some point, but now it’s snowing again so I doubt it’s going to happen. Feel free to find humor in this post considering my Hyacinth post on April 2nd. If it had only been a day earlier it might have been [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tracy pointed me to a blog post about why nice girls finish unhappy and it made me think of my recent post about being nice all the time
I think my problem with the nice girls finish unhappy post is largely semantics. I disagree with pretty much all of her definition of nice. Reading [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I wish I could capture on film the sounds of spring as well. Birds in the trees, children running and playing outside, the crack of baseball bats, and sneezes.
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