Yum! There are blackberries in season growing all over ( Read more... )

Heh... last night, after a long first week of work, I finally relaxed and went to the beach with my little cousins (4, 4, and 6). They kept wanting to look for tiny shells and bottlecaps in the sand... I think the highlight of my night was when one of them walked up to me with a yoghurt container full of sand with a couple of sticks pointing out ( Read more... )

What the hell ( Read more... )

Phewf! I'm really tired! I did all kinds of maniacal things today ( Read more... )

Wow! Someone's foolishness, my little treasure: Someone threw out a potted plant on the lawn of the building next to mine, I suppose they took it for dead. (No plant is dead until it's a dried out hollow stick, whoever u are.) I snatched it up by the woody stem and carried it up to my place--and spread its expensive peat moss among all my ( Read more... )

The weather is turning nice soon, I plan to start biking. I'm going to try to tighten the brakes on my bike in the next hour before going to work, but I'm also thinking of buying a new bike this spring. (I've had the same one for a few years, I bought it for $40 at a yardsale, it's not very fast and it's slowly crumbling ( Read more... )

One spring day a few years ago my twin brother spent an entire afternoon planting potato halves in the garden.
But they never grew!
They were sprayed with chemicals that prevent them from sprouting--"for your convenience"! :(

I actually drove to Winchester and planted my garden today, it was such a release ( Read more... )

Hey, does anyone want to Plant my Garden with me this weekend? It'll involve leaving Ottawa on Saturday and staying over in a cabin in Winchester that night. It'll involve some working in the sun, but nothing entirely exerting.

Hi! I'm at Julia Levine and Bronwen Agnew's house in Montreal.

Will someone please please help me plant my garden in Winchester next weekend? PLEASE?