King of the Garden
My last few cabbages are small, but that’s ok. Lima beans are just now really coming on. I love my heirloom seeds. The cabbages are the sweetest I’ve ever […]
Category Archives: Health
They say we should talk about mental illness
Yes, we should. Now it turns out that a man who made us all laugh was only laughing on the outside. There was a depth of pain behind the […]
Ahh glorious beans
Limas above. Limas and green beans below, learning to go “over” instead of “up” , crawling on a wire between two 9′ trellises. Jack in the Beanstalk is a […]
Black eyed peas
They’re not like other beans at all. They get bigger before they start to flower, and once the flowers are done and the bean pods come on, they take longer […]
A nice cabbage
If you’ve never grown cabbage and only ever bought it from the store, you automatically think of cabbage as being a thing maybe 6″ across. It’s hard to believe […]
Sometimes you just need a neat kitchen gadget!
Got zucchini? I don’t, cos I didn’t plant any, but I will next year. Luckily I have a local source with plenty of good ones that are also inexpensive. […]
Time to eat collard greens!
Sometimes you need to take a whole plant for a bigger “pot o’ greens.” To be the best kind of pot of greens, it would need to include a long-simmered […]
Colonoscopy, a necessary test
Without too much TMI, I want to explain something that’s important to peoples’ health. I’m getting old(er) and the doctor insisted I had to have a colonoscopy. Colon […]
Retired……..
I retired. After many long years of work, 24 of them most recently in the mental health field, it was time to hang it up. I’m ready to have no […]
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 […]
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