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Toddling Through Tuesday
I hope my friends don’t envision me constantly coming up with gardening lesson plans and creative activities for my boys. I’m honestly not that motivated, as evidenced by my near inability to pry myself out of bed this morning and then again after Wookie awoke from his afternoon nap. I’m a very tired mom, due mainly to insomnia and the…
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Close Encounters of the Feathered Kind
This morning I was getting all National Geographic on my backyard, and this mocking bird starting shrieking and flying from tree top to rooftop. I assumed it was because the cat had come outside with me, and I started trying to snap its picture. A pair of hawks swooped overhead, so my theory about the cat shifted to the hawks.…
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Mother’s Day Plant Ideas
It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and my husband has recently mastered gift-giving. He knows a live tree or plant is always preferred over a bouquet of flowers. Here are some plants that would make great gifts for the mother whose thumbs may be just a little brown. Be sure to dig the holes for her! Asiatic lilies. I purchased clearance Asiatic…
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The Kingdom
For days I thought of nothing but Amendment One. The only thing that really was a factor in my vote was separation of Church and State. Here’s the thing. I hold God’s law and the order God set about in creation as the highest law and the highest order – the highest of which stated by Jesus,”You shall love the…
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Sunrise Garden Walk
Mornings after a good rain are always the best in spring. The air is cool, the ground is damp, and everything glistens. I poked around in the garden for a bit pulling weeds, snipping of the lowest branches of the tomatoes, and looking for yellow leaves on the potato plants. Birds were shooting like tiny rockets across the yard, and…
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In Bloom: Burgundy Beans
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