I don’t know if I could rightly call this a real bee “inspection” because it was getting dark and I was in a hurry (hey, when you’re juggling two little people you don’t often get to pick your own time windows). But I was pleased enough to get both hives cracked open and peek inside […]
Last year while I was so badly anemic during my pregnancy, I thought I would never garden again. I couldn’t get excited about flowers, or canning, or any of it… so I promised myself that this year I would grow nothing but easy, easy flowers. No starting seeds, no planting, no wheelbarrowloads of soil amendments, […]
I’ve had such trouble with weeds on the steep, steep slope of Backfill Hill. They are the super-nasty colonizing weeds: poison ivy, wild blackberries, honeysuckle, 10-foot-high Joe-pye weed… Springing up from nothing to strangle and smother the poor raspberries and anything else I try to plant there. Last year I tried organic weed suppression with […]
This is the third and fourth years for most of these trees, so we should be able to harvest some fruit this summer… if the deer don’t get there first, of course. I kept meaning to get the peach tree in all its blossom-bedecked glory… but of course we had pouring rain the night before […]
I’ve never grown leeks before last year. I planted them in the Spring meaning to eat well in Fall, but when I got sick over the summer they got abandoned like the rest of the garden. So there they sat, in one of the well-manured beds, until I remembered them a week ago and went […]
While Grandma and Grandpa were here, Sofía and I took advantage of the free babysitting to give her room a little bit of a facelift. Her room was a pale pink already; but she’s a fun girl and deserves a fun, punchy color. Besides, she’d been begging to paint her room – I don’t know […]
Alea Lore McFadden, born January 20th at 2am. Lore is pronounced “Laura.” It was my grandmother’s name. But we mostly call her Pickles. She’s blond! And very tall. in the 98th percentile for height at 8 weeks, and only the 48th for weight. Tall and skinny like her daddy. I hope to get back into […]