I placed my seed order yesterday from Stokes Seeds. I love Stokes...been ordering stock from there since I was a kid ( Read more... )

Last night I cut down the remaining plants in my garden, with the exception of a Geranium of Defiance that somehow didn't get killed off by the frosts. I left it standing. The others I cut into pieces and spread as evenly as possible over the plot, such that they can be tilled back into the ground and provide some humus for next season. It's sad to ( Read more... )

This weekend has been the first in a long time that we weren't visiting people or going to weddings or otherwise distracted. We had decided a few days before to take a little shopping trip across the border to Buffalo.

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