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I am starting to compile ideas to improve my garden next year. I just came across a very good article on woodchip mulching. Putting this article right here so I do not forget it. But count this as one of my top plans for 2019 (along with raising the patches,Continue Reading

Quora

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A funny thing happened on the way to the Quora today. I came across a funny question that somehow brought these things together. The Question: If humans disappear, and the only thing that survives is a Harry Potter book, would a species discovering it believe that it’s actual history? YouContinue Reading

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My garden is looking forlorn. Between the buckets of rain we have received in Eastern Pennsylvania and the fact that my son “borrowed” our lawnmower, it is a little over grown. I have not planned to grow much this fall. I am more ready to start winding it down andContinue Reading

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I have always had trouble finding just the right calendar to track the days, weeks months, years, what have you. Our lives revolve around the passing of days. And the days turn into weeks and months and years. It makes you think pretty hard about how these cycles came intoContinue Reading

National Preparedness Month

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September has been declared National Preparedness Month by the US government. This observance is sponsored by FEMA, and is annually renewed by the President like all of the other super important Observance days and months, like National Ice Cream Day and National Donut Day. So many of these things areContinue Reading

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Last week we received about 4 inches of rain. We were stuck in an east coast weather pattern that brought tons of moisture up the coast from the Gulf of Mexico. And while our little town is about 20 miles from the real deluge and flooding, we got our fairContinue Reading

The Scarecrow

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What do you do about pests in the garden? And from this, I mean bugs and animals that can damage or kill the plants in your garden. It is funny what I learned about garden pests as a kid. Growing up in the 70’s that meant that most of whatContinue Reading

First batch of Pickles

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For this project, it feels like to story of the Little Red Hen. Not the part of the story where she does all the work but will not share at the end, since none of the other’s would help her. But more because getting to this point went through soContinue Reading

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I began asking about the water I drink after a trip to Miami, FL. Our local water in Reading, PA never bothered me. In fact, I thought it tasted pretty good. I grew up in Southern California, where the water is undrinkable. We always bought Sparkletts bottled water (the greenContinue Reading