Today I will don a mask and gloves and do what I do every year on this day. Drive to the garden nursery. My daughter Kendra and I will have 30 minutes of shopping time starting at 2:30. We will have to make the best use of it because there will be someone else waiting…
It got pretty cold last night. Hopefully this week we’ll have the end of freezing weather at night. I sure hope so because I’m chomping at the bit for a few flowering annuals. I need to get a pineapple sage plant for Charlie to munch on when he has a tummy ache. And every year…
Yesterday afternoon I planted the plants I picked up last week from Woodward park that they were selling for local vendors. I will give two to my daughter. I planted them in one of the two new garden containers I ordered from Amazon. I was going to plant them yesterday morning but someone had their…
I am itching to do something different in my apartment. I don’t know what. I can’t paint because that would probably irritate Charlie’s lungs. So I have my eye on changing up something. Don’t know that I will. Just trying to shift my thoughts to something I can do, and not focus on this feeling…
Each morning when I sit down with my coffee to write my post I usually have Ivy laying on the small side table where I keep my laptop, pawing at me to pet her. If I don’t pet her fast enough, she uses her head to poke at my arms. Meanwhile I have Charlie laying…
Yesterday afternoon I cut back herbs that were turning brown in the sun. These are mostly in the blue raised garden bed that gets the most sun. On the one hand, if I cut plants back I don’t have to look at the raggedness of the browning stalks. On the other hand, they were giving…