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Post Highlights … Time Travel Through 8 Years Of The Journal

I saw A Way to Garden announced her 3rd year blog birthday (in March), and it got me wondering…just how old is my blog, anyway? And I didn’t even know which month I started it. So I looked back. Not a real post, but opened the blog on 09/09/03.

Posts get lost on blogs, so a time travel with something you may or may not know seemed a good occupation on a wintry day. It is still cold, here.

2003-2005

After trying out some css effect I introduced myself: A Bit About Me in 0-Three. Well, more was written about “design”; and as always, I digressed. And today? I don’t like the eighties styles anymore. What happened with that? 9/9/03 First actual garden related post, and the iteas mentioned are dead- I could not get that viburnum to grow in the spot spoken of (got mowed down), and the campanula carpatica is gone. The kerria is doing nicely and the leadwort turned out to be a favorite plant.

Starting Anew in September, Moving Through Fall

September chores

Robert Frost’s Storm Fear

Kids and The Snow

01/28/04 Seed viability and plans for marigolds February and Garden Plans First appearance of the dread Emerald Ash Borer in our area. A Thought or Two on Growing Old– fun to look back now that I am firmly planted there….

Spring Begins A New Growing Season

Seasonal Garden Starting for Ohio A March Garden Report– my way. I never did sell anything on eBay, but the link for making softwood cuttings still works. Early bloom report for 2004.

Slave Drivers Anonymous

Memories of the Past

My Garden Work Survey.

Just Plain Toooo Cold (April!) and Garden Furniture. Wildflowers. Le dent de lion.

Fickle Spring, Ephemeral Beauty.

Things in the garden and a word on Viburnums. A day in the life…Grousing about Garden Writing…even back then…. 5/18/04 snarky “Will You Take Gravy With That?

Before You Know it, Summer

Rain,rain, and planning our first vacation to S.Carolina. 6/3/04
Cherries.

Mad Dogs and Midwesterners… and my daylilies. Garden disappointment, the July Garden report (marathon gardening).

End of summer,noting Hurricane Ivan, and a couple good books.

Autumn Arrives

9/18/04 Favorite September Things, Garden Thoughts.

Savoring Autumn.

We Enter The Deep Winter of Ohio

Cold Exaction.11/12/04 Things Undone, 12/01/04

Christmas Fragrance

Must Our Winter Be One of Discontent?

For a cold winter’s eve -old garden writers.


I have taken us through Posts from earliest beginning to the cusp of 2005. Perhaps I may continue from there another time. It was pleasurable for me to look through my past memories and notes. That, my friends is what our journals are for!

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