So, here's the thing.  I've started a blog over on wordpress.  I'm using it to practice for writing garden books, so I thought I'd try my hand at garden blogging.  Right now my focus is pretty narrow-- entries are mostly confined to my own garden and my dayjob.  But it does mean I'm going to be posting less frequently here.  I don't have time for ( Read more... )

It's been an eventful weekend.  I started the weekend Friday night by going for dinner with two of the women from my writing group, which was really nice.  We had excellent food and good conversation, ranging from makeup to writing and movies and books and it was a lot of fun.

Saturday my brother came home from school for spring break, and I had to ( Read more... )

This has been an eventful weekend for me.  I started it off with a baby shower for a family friend's daughter.  Our family friend has breast cancer and is not doing well, but was hosting despite it.  So we had errands to run to help her get ready, and arrived at the house well before the party started to help with setup and do some decorating.  Her ( Read more... )

 Today, I decided that I was going to put in the rock garden I had been planning.  I picked up the plants at work on Friday and it was finally nice enough to get some work done.  The place where I decided to put the bed in was this rocky, desolate little space, full of noxious weeds and other unpleasantness.

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 I got home today, and this is what I saw!  The very first snowdrops are just beginning to bloom.

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 I've been thinking about this off and on the last couple of weeks, especially this week.  I attend Penn State, which is Pennsylvania's Land Grant school, and the university was founded on agriculture.  Fairly recently we learned that the university is planning on making major cuts to the College of Agricultural Sciences.  There was a meeting that ( Read more... )

An update, of sorts.  Because I have not been so much with the updating.  Firstly, I am doing so much better than after my little meltdown last week.  I'm still worn out, but I don't feel so down, which is fantastic.  I hate feeling like that.

I have way too much schoolwork this semester.  I am doing my best to keep on top of it, and I'm struggling ( Read more... )

P. Allen Smith, I expected better of you.  You have a tv show and everything.  You're supposed to know what you're doing, and this is not it.  The below image is a screenshot from his newsletter, which can be found by clicking this link.

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 I miss Boston and the Arnold.  It's the middle of October, and I still wish I was in Boston and getting up at quarter of six every morning.  I miss going in to work.  I miss the friends I made while I was there, and the good times we had.  It was a wonderful summer ( Read more... )

 
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