The skin on my back is peeling in sheets right now, as though I had been exposed to a high dose of radiation. Which, in fact, I had been. On Saturday the crippled hubby made me take him flower shopping at Home Depot to finish the roof garden in Brooklyn for the summer ( Read more... )

My yard is like a Disney film on steroids ( Read more... )

We awoke to the smell of burning and a thick white haze reducing visibility to less than two miles yesterday, despite a cloudless sky and the sun shining. Apparently there are some massive forest fires in Quebec and the smoke had drifted hundreds of miles down to Cape Cod and was blanketing the area. I've never encountered anything like that ( Read more... )

I got back to my pioneer roots over the weekend, and busted some sod ( Read more... )

I resemble a man who had a tussle with a porcupine. We have a large wild flowerbed loaded with hundreds and hundreds of bulbs and other plants, but last summer an infestation of blackberry brambles invaded. Yesterday, we dug them all out by the roots. Death by a thousand small cuts is a concept I now understand in full - but the end results are ( Read more... )

Gardening is good for the soul. It is a wonderful way to let the rage out of your body. Picking up spade and hoe and mercilessly weeding out invaders is better than almost any video game ( Read more... )

Weeds. We hates them so much ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, that headline perfectly encapsulates my weekend. This weekend was a real push to get some basic garden issues sorted out before the growing season turned everything into impenetrable thickets. One of the blessings/curses of the country property is that at some point a prior owner tore down and replaced the chimneys. The old ( Read more... )

After my last post discussing garden plans, I figured it was time to show everyone the farmhouse up in the Hudson Valley, my baby. It needs to be re-sided, but that will have to wait another year or so. The inside is nearly finished now. It dates to 1840.


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Tis Friday, and the sins of the week are catching up with everyone ( Read more... )