Mother’s Day has come and gone

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Now, we're back to work. But yesterday was an awesome day. My sons, Bill and David, and their families plus my sister, Sue, joined us at our annual Mother's Day foray to Byrns Greenhouse...

Happy New Year to all of you

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I'm sure we'll also have a happy new year but yesterday didn't start off so great. Will was plowing our mile and a half drive after hard winds had drifted some spots quite badly,...

We got a frost but the sun is out and the birds are singing

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A couple of nights ago, we finally got a fairly light frost. It was spotty for us; some gardens got hammered, others not at all and still others, some plants were affected, and others...

We knew rain was headed our way, so we planted, planted, planted

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Yesterday was a butt buster, for sure. It was a beautiful, partly cloudy day in the sixties, but rain was forecast for today. So, both Will and I were very busy gardening. I set...

Despite frost advisories, we’ve started planting in earnest

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We'd planned on getting started yesterday but Will came in from checking the cows saying we had a new bull calf. Sarge had found him, lying in the edge of the woods while the...