Yes, yes, I know it’s the wrong season to be talking about/working on the garden. But I think we’ve come to realize that’s part of the reason why our garden has been disappointing year after year – we’re starting it too late and rushing to get things in, and it just doesn’t work. So, this time around, we started our garden in the fall by putting in a ‘potager garden.’ I’ve seen potager gardens all over the internet, and for…
Every year I lament about how our garden has been a flop, and I really shouldn’t given how well we seem to do with pumpkins and squash. Right now our garden (and much of our backyard) has been taken over by vines. We will have enough pumpkins and butternut squash to keep us in soup for a very long time. For some reason, I remember trying to grow pumpkins as being very difficult. Around here, it’s the only thing that…
Summer always seems to go quickly around here. No matter what happens, the garden seems to get away from us. We were actually on top of getting things in on time this year, but then our chickens decided they wanted to be free range chickens and started flying out of their pen. Okay, fine, you do you, chickens. Except we realized too late that they were tearing up our garden. Now it looks like it’s another year of just pumpkins…
These last few weeks have been quite the experience – both with my own personal health and witnessing what’s going on in the world right now. I’m happy to report that I’ve greatly improved. There is more recovery to come; I’m almost always out of breath, but I do feel good. Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and to those who have reached out and sent messages. All of it has been appreciated. I saw a meme…
What? It’s almost August?? Somehow it’s the second half of July and I feel like we’ve done absolutely nothing this summer. That isn’t true, but it certainly feels like it. Here’s what’s going on: The house project has stalled. It took National Grid eight weeks to move the gas line so that the next part of the project could keep going. In that time, our contractor’s crew started working on another job (and frankly, I don’t blame him), and we’re…