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Archive for March, 2008

in which my political career endeth

Posted: Sunday, March 30th, 2008 in current events | 5 Comments »

You may recall that I attended my precinct caucus after the March 4 Texas primary and was sent as a delegate to our county convention. Our precinct selected 6 delegates - 5 for Clinton and 1 for Obama - to the county convention.
Saturday morning I drove down to the county courthouse and […]

the vegetable garden

Posted: Saturday, March 29th, 2008 in outside in the garden | 2 Comments »

Last spring the few veggies we grew had to share space with an assortment of flowers and shrubs in a long narrow raised bed along the edge of the shed.
This year they get their own bed.   We weren’t sure just where to place it.  The big problem was protecting it from predators.  Last summer a […]

second nature

Posted: Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 in book reviews | 3 Comments »

I own tons of books about “plants” and a decent selection of books about “landscaping” but I’ve never dug as deep as I would like into the literature of “gardening.” When Carol started her book club for Garden Bloggers, I hoped that I might remedy this. Unfortunately I’ve mostly been disappointed by what […]

the lure of the garden

Posted: Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 in land stewardship | 1 Comment »

By avoiding the need for major cultural change, garden reasoning of this type overlaps with today’s probusiness, libertarian calls for privatization and for unleashing the market. All such thinking resists the notion that America’s individualistic consumer-oriented culture is materially flawed. All of it rejects the worry, and the evidence, that human arrogance is […]

mickey’s garden

Posted: Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 in outside in the garden | 2 Comments »


 

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