Dragonflies in the Sun
The dragonflies were sunning themselves in the grape vine poles again today.
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Lemon Tree – Second Treatment for Scale
Earlier I described my plan for ridding my lemon tree of scale. I waited 16 days to apply the second treatment of white oil. Ideally I would have done this sooner but we were having a rainy patch. Before I … Continue reading →
Cabbage Success
A few days ago I described how we’d treated the cabbage patch with slug bait. It was the first time we’d tried it and it looks like it’s working. We harvested our first head of cabbage today. It was nicely … Continue reading →
The To-Do List
This is something I wrote back in 2003. ~ Marsha I cut my finger the other day. One second I was slicing a tomato and the next I was racing for something to soak up the blood. While I didn’t … Continue reading →
Cabbage
In years past we’ve had a problem with slugs getting to our cabbage. This year we sprinkled some slug bait among the cabbages. The bait contains a small amount of iron phosphate. It’s harmful to slugs and fairly easy on … Continue reading →
Dressing for Dinner
The Man of the House and I both work at home. We don’t belong to many groups or organizations. In short, we don’t get out much. So we’re free to dress as we please. As you can imagine, that leads to … Continue reading →
Wine Bottling Day
Yesterday The Man of the House and I bottled wine. Instead of bottling a huge batch we bottled four smaller batches. There were three different types of mead (honey wine) and one jug of apple wine. We had one gallon of … Continue reading →
City Chickens
One day, hopefully within the next year, The Man of the House and I will move to the country. Once we’re there I’d really like to get chickens. Technically though I don’t have to wait. There are a lot of people … Continue reading →
Tomatoes
The Man of the House did it. As promised he planted tomatoes right by our front steps. What’s that behind the tomato you ask? That’s my little stone bunny.
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