Recently I haven’t posted as much as I normally do. I’ve been having a medical adventure. About a month ago I started getting what I thought were bug bites. It made sense. I garden therefore I will have bug bites. … Continue reading →
The Man of the House and I dream of having a wine cellar one day. I imagine walking down stone steps into the cool darkness. I flip the light switch and am greeted with bottles and barrels of wine made … Continue reading →
The dragonflies were sunning themselves in the grape vine poles again today.
Continue reading →Earlier I described my plan for ridding my lemon tree of scale. I waited 16 days to apply the second treatment of white oil. Ideally I would have done this sooner but we were having a rainy patch. Before I … Continue reading →
A few days ago I described how we’d treated the cabbage patch with slug bait. It was the first time we’d tried it and it looks like it’s working. We harvested our first head of cabbage today. It was nicely … Continue reading →
This is something I wrote back in 2003. ~ Marsha I cut my finger the other day. One second I was slicing a tomato and the next I was racing for something to soak up the blood. While I didn’t … Continue reading →
In years past we’ve had a problem with slugs getting to our cabbage. This year we sprinkled some slug bait among the cabbages. The bait contains a small amount of iron phosphate. It’s harmful to slugs and fairly easy on … Continue reading →
The Man of the House and I both work at home. We don’t belong to many groups or organizations. In short, we don’t get out much. So we’re free to dress as we please. As you can imagine, that leads to … Continue reading →
Yesterday The Man of the House and I bottled wine. Instead of bottling a huge batch we bottled four smaller batches. There were three different types of mead (honey wine) and one jug of apple wine. We had one gallon of … Continue reading →
