With warmer weather we’ve been busy

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Of course, that's nothing new, but it is so nice to be outside on nice days. Our fruit trees are budding, including the Chestnut crab that we love and thought the voles had killed...

We’ve got a frost warning for Friday night

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Holy cow, from the eighties down to 33 degrees F, forecast for Friday night/Saturday morning. It's been a very challenging summer for the gardens so far and we sure didn't need that. We've still...

With warm weather, we’ve been getting a lot done

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Last spring we bought a new patio door unit, planning to replace the patio windows in the south wall of our living room. The seals on the old windows were compromised and sometimes they...

We had a happy Thanksgiving and a foot of snow

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As we were under a winter blizzard warning, we had no company for Thanksgiving. But I still cooked up a storm, anyway. And finally, after years of trial and error...mostly error…found out how to...

We’re planting garden in just about dust

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But we pray daily for a good rain to get things going once it is planted. I went with our friend, Tom, who helped us so much after Bob died, when we were building...