Well, with the onion frost come and gone and the spring here in somewhat cold and rainy earnest, Percy's purple house is full of started seeds that need transplanted. Ever since February, every available surface has been covered with pots of baby tomatoes, basil, artichokes, and peppers. Now to-day he's outside on his knees in the dirt, gingerly, ( Read more... )

( look! it's pictures of our garden. )

We're goin' on our trip to-morrow! I'm excited, I like goin' places. Last time we went on a big trip it was when we went home ta Wales and that was great. We got to climb in the castles and I got to tell stories to the ladies about bein' a knight and stuff. It was really great ( Read more... )

Percy is down at the asparagus bed, kneeling in the mud (it rained the night before), and cutting asparagus with a knife made, because he is handy, out of what was once an armour-part ( Read more... )

We would like to take this post to remind the resident Arthurians that their unofficial therapist/counsellor is still open for appointments. Are you troubled by persistent unhappy memories? Have you been forced out of your home because your husband has a new boyfriend? Are you trying to reconcile yourself with your teenage kids? How about if your ( Read more... )

They make things for growin' tomatoes that hang upside-down from the ceiling, so you don't have ta stake your tomatoes! You just put 'em inside, and they grow vines down, and that keeps 'em from tanglin' and rottin' and everything ( Read more... )

Bedivere was talking about being in love, and I just started thinking, I guess. I do, sometimes. I think about a lot of stuff. I mean, it's so easy to love my plants. Because--I dunno, you ever hold a tomato? They're round and you can feel how the skin's pulled tight, and they have all these ridges and furrows and they smell beautiful, and if it's ( Read more... )

Haynes mayen't be up yet, but Percy has a bad habit of getting up early, and since sunrise he's been on his hands and knees weeding the garden in the woods ( Read more... )