Long-time readers may remember that when we first bought this house, one of the first things we did was plant a couple of pawpaw trees, because Andy and I had long been curious about this native American fruit that was supposedly delicious but never found in stores ( Read more... )

Here's a sibling to the last plant I posted. The first photo was taken around 7:00 AM today, and the second around 4:00 PM.


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No surprises here, either.

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Several years ago, before getting bogged down in home renovations and, like, having a paying job, I got into daylily hybridizing. I figured it was time to finally document some of my results.

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After church today, I gave a ride to a new member who lives in my neighborhood. As it turns out, she lives in a house that we looked at back when we were house-hunting three years ago, and it sounds like she bought it not too long after we saw it ( Read more... )

... here's my haul from the Bluestone Perennials 50%-off sale ( Read more... )

On a whim, I bought one of those Topsy-Turvy tomato planters. It was only $10, and the upper level of our deck gets relatively decent sun (compared to the rest of the yard) and already has a couple of those tall shepherd's-crook style hooks bolted to it ( Read more... )

Bluestone Perennials is having their spring half-price clearance sale, through May 31. Many thanks to
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Oh, man, I am SOOO spinning my wheels in procrastination. I don't want to put Squeaky to bed (don't have the energy for the arguing or the interest in lying down with him for 30 minutes or more), and I certainly don't want to work on the grant proposal (of which the rough draft needs to be sent to a colleague by lunch time tomorrow ( Read more... )

So, yesterday afternoon I saw a workman wandering up and down the property line between our house and our neighbors across the ravine. (We've never met these neighbors -- although their house is near enough that on winter evenings we can sort of see into each other's living rooms, their house is up a very steep hill, and they live on a different ( Read more... )