It was a busy day ( Read more... )

I missed a couple things worth mentioning ( Read more... )

The first official frost of the season is supposed to happen tomorrow night. I say official because when I cleaned my rear windshield off the other morning, I ended up with clumps of ice on the edges. I...didn't think it was *that* cold overnight. Forty, yes. Thirties, not so much. It's going to be chilly enough for frost both Friday and ( Read more... )

Back in May, when the work on the house began, we figured the roof and siding would be done around Memorial Day and soon after we'd get things planted ( Read more... )

We're not gardening too much right now, in anticipation of the work that'll happen on the house, but we can plant baskets and vegetables behind the shed. Plus, a number of the flowers have been growing in cups for so long that when they finally are removed, the imprint of the cup remains in the dirt and roots. That's just sad. Those are generic ( Read more... )

I knew there was something I'd wanted to mention from the weekend, but there was so much else going on and going wrong that I forgot. My mom attended some sort of New Age-y festival in a nearby town on Saturday. She'd invited me to go with her, but at the time I was supposed to have a work thing, darn, and couldn't go. However, the work thing ( Read more... )

When I got home from band on Thursday night, I was warned that I was expected to weed this Saturday. Okay, cool, guess I know what I'll be doing for much of the day. And then of course we didn't get started until roughly 10:30--I was doing laundry, as I've started planning/packing for camp, and then my grandmother called and we were on the phone ( Read more... )

I picked the first couple of tomatoes today! Our cherry tomatoes are reddening up as we speak, and when dad went to do his daily check of inventory, he said we probably wouldn't need to buy any for a while. I was surprised he hadn't picked any; he was surprised *I* hadn't. Well, this is more your garden than anything; I'm not about to just start ( Read more... )

Note: I don't call my father Pop, but I liked the alliteration ( Read more... )

My father and I had ample evidence showing that to be true ( Read more... )