Ice so hard I can walk on top of it…………
And yet leaves lay on top and melt their way down into the hard crust. Although I hate the cold and ice, mother nature many times surprises us in the […]
Category Archives: Garden/Yard
A menagerie outside my window
The animals are so glad to have food put out for them in the winter and especially in the snow. I had some rolls that were left from an office […]
Those tomatoes I dehydrated………
Oh yea, I’m so glad I dehydrated a lot of them. I love soup in the winter, with a nice hunk of good bread and a piece of cheese. Those […]
Snow day……..
These guys are getting ready for our snow storm that’s coming today. Plus there is one on the back porch that MaChatte is paying very close attention to. She is […]
Not much goes in the land fill from here
My neighbor asked if I wanted the potato peels from a big family dinner, for my compost pile…….well yes, I do! And I told her my next summer’s garden would […]
Out of denial, and into the cold……..
Time to tear down the tomato plants. Yea. The frost has cut everything off now, the cherry tree has lost all its leaves, annual things are done and perennial things […]
Making do……have we forgotten how? And does it matter?
I grew up with parents who had lived thru the Great Depression and an awful war. I heard stories from them and my grandmother about austerity, rationing of things during […]
OK, 65
OK, so today I’m 65. Pretty much just another day with a big number attached, lol. I’m now officially a senior citizen tho. In the spring I’ll go to our […]
Preparing for a long, cold winter
This little guy was on my porch last winter in a snow storm, asking for more sunflower seeds. I wrote a blog about enjoying the nature outside my windows. https://sarasinart.net/2012/12/30/nature-out-my-windows/ Now […]
Fall in the garden
Fall is here for sure but there is still some stuff growing on in the garden. Grape tomatoes will go on till frost. They are a plant almost like a […]
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