My grandmother died forty years ago. Up till that time no one needed to organize a family reunion. She had ten children and most every weekend one or more were at her house. All you had to do was show up and there was an instant family reunion.
When […]
The vegetable garden has been invaded lately with spearmint. It escaped from a nearby shady bed under a juniper tree across a paved path into the area where we are trying to grow tomatoes and lettuce.
As weeds go this is a pretty nice one, providing extra benefits of fragrance when you pull it […]
Today I pulled out a bunch of Japanese honeysuckle with stems almost a half-inch thick. It had planted itself among a stand of nandina and I did not even notice it until the white blooms revealed themselves a few days ago.
I hate pulling honeysuckle out because it has a pretty […]
After several days of teasing we finally got a rain tonight. Tricia went out and sat in the porch swing in the dark to enjoy the air and listen to the rain. The splash from the eaves released the fragrance of the salvias planted between the rose bushes. I sat […]
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