Category Archives: gardening

At last – I’m finally making time to put on these pictures from our yard and garden!  I really should be packing for Greece because we leave in less than 24 hours.  Yikes!!  Anyway, here they are! So we went … Continue reading →

So all this winter, I’ve had a creeping charlie next to our TV in our living room, on the other side of the room from the windows.  I knew it wasn’t thriving but I didn’t really have anywhere else to … Continue reading →

This week’s haul – green leaf lettuce and red leaf lettuce (1 head each), 1.5 pounds of snow peas (which Nik and I spent three hours picking), .8 pounds of sugar snap peas, oregano (which I picked while Nik was … Continue reading →

Just for fun, I’m going to try to put a picture of what we get from the CSA, every week.  I’m interested in seeing how the produce changes over the weeks.  So here’s the picture from last week – strawberries, … Continue reading →

Happy June 1st everyone!  We have only 7 days of school left and we can taste the freedom! (Unfortunately, so can the kids!) Nik went to our church’s Men’s Retreat this weekend so Tina and I took on another task, … Continue reading →

What do you do when your husband isn’t home, your front porch doesn’t have stairs to the outside, you don’t want to carry all of the pots through the house, and it’s a two person job to get the pots … Continue reading →

This time for our two porches: Here’s the staging area: The finished product for the back porch, which is really the porch that we use.

Nik went up to Ocean City, NJ yesterday with Dan and Jeff to hang out with the guys for Memorial Day weekend.  So today, after church, I drove up to Tina’s and we had fun doing some plant shopping.  Then … Continue reading →