Mr. Brown Thumb has the prettiest picture of a lightening bug. He has gorgeous pictures of about anything he points a camera at. I have the same nostalgic feelings and memories he describes. Although I do have one that probably few of you do: when I was a very little girl my mother was thoughtfully […]
Garden Stories and Memories
Greetings
Hi: I am finally posting here for the first time and find myself suffering from writer’s block! My name is ‘Handyman’, and my wife and I live in a 100+ year old farm house. I often say I live in a project, because after 21 years of being here, the projects are never ending. I […]
Kudos and Complaints
I had sort of s semi-complaint about my husband in the Garden Journal today, but immediately after posting I started to think, and realize we all have our negatives and positives. I was grousing a bit about how my children break tools, and my husband doesn’t have the disposition to train them to take care […]
September 6 Garden Journal Entry
…Which means I must be gardening again. I was depressed and overworked in other areas all summer, so my garden was derelict. It was surprising what some Labor Day weekend work accomplished, though. I garnered help from my people…mainly the kids at home, and went to work. Some weeding, some pruning back,and to prepare the […]
Wedding Review
I didn’t realize that I had not posted the promised report on the wedding. It went beautifully, truly did -I’m not just saying that for a public audience. The flowers were too much work for two hands (I accomplished it, but wouldn’t recommend it), and the bridesmaid’s bouquets turned out to be exceptionally lovely. God blessed […]
Mad Dogs And Midwesterners
Now this is Midwestern summer. Hot, humid Fourth of July, hazy, and sunny weather. The kind that only mad dogs and ( forgive me, Englishmen) and Midwesterners dare to defy. Yep. We work in this weather, and lots of us don’t have airconditioning. Not on the full time basis of the South and SouthWest, anyway. […]
