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. […]
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Ames True Temper Re-Announces Recall of Wheelbarrows
Ames True Temper Re-Announces Recall of Wheelbarrows In the interest of consumer safety, I was asked ( in an email) to post this url. I think a Sunday is a good day to do a good turn. Info from the company will further help you to know whether your whellbarrow might cause you problems. Wheelbarrows […]
Life As A Bowl of Cherries
A bowl of cherries in June is a deliciously marvelous thing. But this year there will be no bowls of cherries. Sweet cherries, especially, but that Pie ones also, do not like overly wet conditions. I checked on the cherry crop to find that most of them molded on the tree. That happened in a […]
And the Coming Week?
MORE RAIN. I am nonplussed. Flabbergasted. Disconcerted. It is as though the climate has changed, and damp, humid, sticky Ohio is not a nice place to be. Earwigs and mosquitoes are guaranteed. I know. I’m complaining again. I briefly weeded in the garden and started to put some seeds in when the phone rang. Completely […]
KJ Gardens
KJ Gardens oooo neat! Another garden blog! Looks like a Midwestern gardener, too.
Will You Take Gravy With That?
Have you ever noticed how much hyperbole is ladled onto so much of the reading- whether online or off? It is as if it were all advertisement copy. The subject of gardening has not been exempt. Think about the essays that tell you that “there is nothing as thrilling as harvesting your own vegetables”. Now, […]
