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The midnight baker
Last night, crazy fool that I am, I was up till 1 AM baking this apple pie. I’m so tired today! But I NEEDED PIE!!! These were the last of my Granny Smith apples, picked about a month ago. They were the smaller, less ripe ones, so I guess they had a lot of shelf…
The batter swings and the summer flies…
The title of this post is from a recent song by Five for Fighting (The Riddle). Anyway, those words keep running through my mind this week, as we’ve had two storms sweep in and blow summer far away. The first was last Friday, which brought snow to the mountains. It’s pretty to see Mt. Timpanogos…
Gardening through winter – what worked well
One of the reasons for moving back to northern California was to garden through the winter, and it hasn’t disappointed. This is the first winter with our new, large flowerbed in the front and our raised veggie beds, and we took advantage of those spaces to grow more winter flowers and a few vegetables. We…
This is how it all started!
Have I mentioned that this is how I got started gardening, about 42 years ago? So, I was 14 and we moved into a new house with no front garden. My mom asked if I’d like to help her design and plant grass, flowers, and trees to make our new front yard. I suggested a…
Icy driveways
Well, we finally got some snow again this week. Had a good six inches or so to shovel off the driveway on Thursday morning. But what was even more impressive was a few days before that — the snow wasn’t terribly deep, but it got really icy. Our backyard neighbor, Wade, had driven up our…
Planting the seeds of a happy life
If you’ve followed this blog in the past year, you know that my gardening life (and my blog activity) has slowed considerably since all the changes in my life took me away from that piece of ground I cultivated and loved for eight years. Well, on October 10th, 2010 (10.10.10!) my sweet Santia and I…