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How Can I Help?
So, by the number of questions I’ve been getting from friends over the past couple weeks, I get the idea that you guys trust me and my gardening advice. I really am flattered by it and absolutely love seeing more people start to grow their own food and get their hands a little dirty. It has become quite a passion of mine. I also think that maybe there are some friends out there that really do want to start a…
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Just a fuddy-dud.
Last night I got to hang out with my best gal who happens to be very successful in her career. Reflecting on my own path – a career never really took off and instead I am in a nest full of little boys. After a long several days of being quarantined, I think must be feeling a little tortured and trapped. Too many hours of PBS kids and whining can do that to a mama. So as my head hit…
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Chickadees!
For about a week, I thought a family of blue birds would move into one of our two next boxes, but a sweet pair of chickadees fought hard for the one in the back and quickly built a nest from the straw I’d stuffed behind their box and fresh grass clippings. I’ve been opening the door to watch the progress, but never saw any birds inside – until this weekend when I got hissed at by a mama bird incubating…
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Garden Walk
After being gone all week, I was excited to get out into the garden and see what had changed. Here are several snapshots I took with my phone. In order: blackberry blossoms (2), the garden path, knockout rose bush, muscadine vine (2), romaine, tangerine crossvine, and Texas tarragon.
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Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
The boys and I have spent the week in Tennessee visiting family. Today we went to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. I loved all the details on the old engines, from the peeling paint of the retired ones to the shiny wheels and lights of the restored ones. The boys were pretty cranky, but that didn’t slow down my picture-taking fun. Scooby loves trains, so he was pretty quick to correct our terminology and point out which ones were like…
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White Deer Park Rainwater Cisterns
After several posts on my home water cistern, I thought it would be fun to share what White Deer Park in Gardner is doing with rainwater. White Deer Park was built on land with its roots in agriculture, so they chose to have their cisterns resemble silos and built structures with lean-to roofs. Their picnic shelters all have cisterns to capture runoff. I’m not sure what most of them are used for, but one of these feeds into a hand…
