What the hell, Trader Joe's. WHY NO DENTAL FLOSS?

I already went to Home Depot due to your strange and inexplicable failure to carry Roundup. Three stores in one working day is over the line!

OTOH, HD might have had something that would work as dental floss. Fine gauge fishing line?

It's confession time.

I've been meaning to confess for a few weeks now. On my trip to North Carolina this spring, I became mildly obsessed with weigela. Pretty flowers, delicious fragrance, attracts hummingbirds, happy in our climate, perfect! So as I went to my various spring plant sales, visited the local nurseries, and perused the temporary ( Read more... )

Left wrist, mildly unhappy after weekend gardening exploits, became less happy after "taking the compost out" turned into "digging around in the compost pile". Have procured wrist brace and two summer dressesSuspect this may be the first sign that my Gardening Habit is becoming a Gardening Problem. The need for an Intervention remains unclear. But ( Read more... )

What with my efforts to get the Reykjavik guidebook I wanted from the county library having all failed and Amazon refusing to ship it for 2-5 weeks, I devoted last night to scouring bookstores. And it worked! Yay! Footprint Reykjavik, you are mine ( Read more... )