… About Catching Up — Part One: Work and School (That’s Right, School!)
As you may (or may not) have noticed, there weren’t any posts in September. With everything that’s been going on the blog just didn’t fit on our “to do” list! … Continue reading
… About Not Letting An ‘Unreturned’ Gas Can Stop Us From Helping People
Wednesday afternoon there was a knock at our front door. I was in my usual working location and “condition” (sitting on the couch in my PJs with my laptop in … Continue reading
… About Our New Shed (and the Secret Slug Colony)
So we finally bought a new shed a couple of weeks ago and put it up on Sun., Aug. 12. (Sorry we’re so late to “report in.” Things have have … Continue reading
… About Our New Roof
Look — our house is topless! Well, not anymore: we finally got our new roof last week. It was a two-day process (July 24-25) that was a little stressful, especially … Continue reading
… About the Appearance of the Giant Zucchini
The plight of our squash has been well documented up to this point, especially the scourge of the powdery mildew. So you’re probably surprised to see this giant zucchini — … Continue reading
… About the Winds That Took Away Our Shed
So, did you hear about the 64 m.p.h. winds that took the roof off the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville last night? They also took away our shed! Around 6:45 … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: Lettuce Entertain You
Full disclosure: there’s nothing especially entertaining about this post — I just couldn’t resist using a good (bad) pun for the headline. But we did finally do a lettuce harvest … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: Here They Come
The tomatoes are finally turning red — and turning fast! They go from “not quite ready to pick” orange to “reddish enough to pick before something goes wrong” orange in … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: The Attack of the Powdery Mildew
This is the post I didn’t want to write, so I put it off for a few days (the photos are from July 5). Why? Because it’s “True Confessions” time: … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: What a Difference Three Days Makes!
Wow! Remember just three days ago when there were two yellow squash and one zucchini and they were only 3-4″ long? You can imagine our surprise when we checked on … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: Finally More Than Leaves and Flowers From the Squash
When we were watering tonight we found one zucchini and two yellow squash! They’re in the 3-4″ range, which is amazing since they weren’t there just a couple days ago. … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: You Know They’ll All Turn Red At Once
Just a quick update to let you know that “a watched tomato never turns red” — because we’ve been staring at all these green tomatoes for a few weeks now! … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: The Lonely Red Tomato
Meet our lonely red tomato. It showed up before the plant was even in the ground and recently turned red, but it stopped growing and is only the size of … Continue reading
… About Our Lily Trees
We’re always surprised when we mention our “Lily Trees” and no one has ever heard of such a thing. We got our bulbs from Breck’s 4–5 years ago and they were advertised … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: One Month Progress Report
As you can see, the garden is progressing nicely. Here are some “before” (left) and “after” (right) photos. The “before” ones were taken about two weeks after planting (5/26) and … Continue reading
… About Our Garden: The First Big Lettuce Harvest
Rob and I both love to eat salad, and it’s a good thing because I think we’re going to have lots of lettuce this year. We harvest by the leaf, … Continue reading
… About Getting Our New Washer
A couple weeks ago our clothes washer died unexpectedly. I guess when something breaks it’s almost always unexpected, but it’s always weird when something works fine one minute and then … Continue reading
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