Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Spinning, Ten on Tuesday, garden, politics on Aug 31st, 2010
Ten ways to Lighten My Mood. Are you insinuating I’m cranky???!!!!?
Plant sunflowers in your garden.
Go out to lunch with a friend.
Change the routine. We all need a little variety. So that would be peanut butter on the English muffin instead of jam.
Spend time puttering in the garden. As long as there are no aphids. Bastids.
Read [...]
Posted in garden on Aug 8th, 2010
We’re all hiding from the heat today. The temperature is 98 degrees (36 degrees Celsius) and the heat index is 112 (44 Celsius), the hottest day this summer. Upstairs, the drapes are all drawn so there’s a shadowy coolness, perfect for cat napping. Me, I’m in a sweatshirt downstairs where it’s at least 5 degrees [...]
Posted in garden on Jul 30th, 2010
Nobody can see us here.
I thought about toning down the yellow, but these marigolds look just this bright when you walk by them. Blinding.
Today’s forecasted temperature: 92
Heat index: 103
This is the second week in a row where there’s been no water for the community garden because of a break in the water line. It was [...]
The first of the Black Cherry tomatoes are ripening on the deck. We’re having grilled chicken salad for dinner tonight and tomatoes will be a star player. Yum!
Teddy Update
Teddy has been cooperating reluctantly with entering the trap to eat his wet food. Last night he turned his back on the whole thing and pouted for [...]
The sweet potatoes won’t be as pretty as this blossom, but I’m hoping there will be plenty of them.
Short and sweet today, I’m a little under the weather and need to go take a nap.
I’ve managed to spin everyday and it’s been delightful. Partly because the fiber is bright and cheerful and partly because a [...]
Posted in garden on Jun 23rd, 2010
Posted in garden on Jun 17th, 2010
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. — Janet Kilburn Phillips
Before planting
If the outcome to a problem doesn’t have life and death consequences I tend to adopt a “Why not try it, what’s the worst that can happen?” attitude to arrive at a solution.
When the problem involves gardening, all the better.
This spring as we [...]
Posted in garden on Jun 11th, 2010
A peas-ful photo
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Don’t ask me why little caterpillars merit a fancy French headline, but since that’s all the burial they’ll get, we’ll go with it.
It turns out that I rescued cabbage loopers as the brilliant Manise (no blog) informed me. Why, if they’re supposed to like kale and cabbage they ate my lettuce plants and [...]
Posted in garden on Jun 10th, 2010
As a child growing up in Vermont I wasn’t interested in keeping caterpillars or bees or crickets or ant farms. We never would have thought to bring pests in the house to raise. Anymore than we would have put one of the perch Dad and the boys caught into a fish tank to keep as [...]
These irises started blooming about the time the tree peony blossoms died back. Now they’re both faded and the summer flowers are coming on.
And peas! I have peas! OK, maybe only enough for one meal if you have a tiny appetite, but these make me happy. They’re bigger than this now and I’ve been pulling [...]
