Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo, what a wonderful day
I spent a wonderful day at a place my son and daughter in law love, but I had never been there. Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo http://cwpzoo.com/ is located near […]
9/11/11
Originally posted on Sarasin's thoughts…….:
I was working at the Crisis Intervention Center at the hospital. Another worker was with me in the office, and another worker was down in the ER with…
We have a thief in the garden
Strange things had been happening. I had a volunteer cantaloupe plant that had 2 melons growing on it. They were under bean plants and didn’t get a lot of sun, […]
It all started with blue corn
Blue Hopi corn, to be exact. The seeds were given to me last year by a dear lady who has since passed away. Her family had been growing this corn […]
Ahhh, Small Town America
Small Town America is a good place to be. It’s nice to block off the main streets and have vendors come from all over to sell neat things. It’s nice […]
The good earth provides
Let the harvests continue! I love to see beans curing in a jar on the window sash. Those are the first black turtle beans, and later there will be some […]
Things are growing on around here!
I went to the greenhouse early in the season to buy herbs. I saw 4 “cute little spaghetti squash” plants, and decided to bring them home too. I would plant […]
Garden going wild!
The garden is doing amazing stuff. I had posted before that I had a garden mystery: squash coming up where my cucumbers (only!) were supposed to be, squash that I […]
Gardening adventures
Or maybe I should just call them gardening misadventures. I planted two kinds of cucumber seeds under a big bamboo teepee: some straight 8’s and some pickling cukes. I planted […]
Three Sisters
3 Sisters, a companion planting concept used by Native Americans for centuries, is a new concept to me and something I wanted to try. The oldest sister, corn, gets planted […]
