I'm watching a candidate forum so as to vote in the June primary. One of candidates' solution to everything is for everyone to drop what they're doing and start growing marijuana. You think I am exaggerating or poking fun. I'm not. I could literally use the word literally in this situation ( Read more... )

Plus, my first very own personal gingerbread on the shed and garage. I've admired the sunbursts on other people's Victorian homes, and now I have some of my very own. I kept waiting for the perfect day to photograph my garden: overcast enough so that it wasn't a glarey blur, bright enough that the wildflowers were open. And then the day came! ( Read more... )

Today has been overcast, a good time to take garden pictures! Full sun is great for growing, not so good for showing.


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Here are some garden pics. Yay?! I've got my first couple of dahlia flowers! The weather here has been crazy warm, which for here means a sweatshirt may not be needed. "What is this strange moisture?" I asked the Mister. It turns out it is this thing called perspiration. What is up with that? My mom talked me into going to Agate Beach with ( Read more... )

I had help. My mom bought the newspapers, and I filled out the entry forms. So when you see the businesses that won some periodical's 'Best of' contest, maybe they are the 'Best Thai Restaurant' around OR MAYBE there's just someone out there with a cramped writing hand and a dearth of quarters ( Read more... )

The dahlia trip was wonderful. The drive up the coast is breath-taking and the weather was perfect. The Mister laughs when I squeak in fear as I negotiate Highway 101. In places it clings to the side of a crumbling cliff twenty stories above the ocean. It's OK that he laughs because I only do it to make him laugh, but all that immense blue ( Read more... )

To-do list (preliminary) to create new garden beds.

• Tear out old fence.
• Erect new fence four feet to the north.
• Attach four boards together to form a box. Paint it.
• Fill with dirt and dahlias.
• Enjoy.

I took a chance on a tiny grower that offers all their varieties for $4 on the strength of one positive review. We'll see what happens. I exchanged chatty emails with the owner who (by his own report) is a retired rodeo bull rider who also breeds cats, horses and pit bull dogs. I hope he comes out of major back surgery alright. (Bull riding: bad ( Read more... )

I'll just have to build some new garden beds, that's all. I need to work off all of this Thanksgiving feasting anyway. Gorgeous bouquets here I come! The tubers will start shipping in March next year, and in a mere 7-9 months from now I should be seeing some blooms. They all look the same size here, but the blooms will range from 4 inches to ( Read more... )

I googled on the first sentence of my guest editorial for the local paper today. I got 373 results. Blogs and websites picked it up. I'm tickled that the piece is reaching much farther than our obscure local paper. It's also fun to see my name as byline.

Also, I went crazy and ordered some Dahlia tubers for next spring. I'm so excited!

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