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Garden Report — August 30

30 August 2009

It’s been hot and dry for much of the sum­mer. That’s hard on the plants and I know that I’m going to have to move some things that haven’t han­dled the heat well come fall. Mean­while I’ve been replac­ing some of the things that we lost in last winter’s deep freeze. Rose­mary is some­thing that I […]

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Garden Report

14 June 2009

The peonies are almost ready to bloom. How odd that I saw my sister’s peonies in full bloom in Pitts­burgh more than 2 weeks ago.

Tagged as: peonies

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Feeling Nesty — Part I

14 June 2009

Today we declared a scav­enger hunt day. We have a list of things we’d like to have for the house but haven’t found just the right one yet. We were wildly suc­cess­ful. Our last gazebo was destroyed by the snow last win­ter. We finally found a gazebo/screen house that was small enough for the spot between […]

Tagged as: gazebo, screen house

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Garden Report

10 May 2009

Happy Mother’s Day week­end. Gar­den­ing sea­son now begins in earnest in Puge­topo­lis. We did our part to add to the may­hem. Begin­ning with some addi­tions to the kitchen gar­den. A cou­ple of ser­rano chiles, four basils and an even dozen ran­dom let­tuce plants. If we cut only a cou­ple of sal­ads a week this will […]

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Signs of Spring. 3/$10

16 February 2009

From QFC this morning:

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New Gallery Software

25 January 2009

I have added an instance of Zen Photo for Ms. Shoes. The first album is a set of pho­tos that I took this morn­ing of birds vis­it­ing our bird feed­ers. (yes that is snow, again.) Click on the pic­ture to go to the gallery!

Tagged as: birds, feeders, snow

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Garden Report — The Aftermath

10 January 2009

Now that most of the snow is melted it’s time to have a good look at the gar­den and assess the dam­ages. There aren’t really any sur­prises. Most of the dam­age was done by the very cold tem­per­a­tures on Dec 19th (10.4F) and Dec 20th (4.1F) Among the casu­al­ties: I don’t know if the euphor­bia will […]

Tagged as: butterfly bush, euphorbia, mint, sage

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Snow Day

14 December 2008

It snowed last night. This morn­ing it’s bright and cold (27). This is my idea of what win­ter should look like.

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Bird Feeders Are Now Up

2 October 2008

Yes­ter­day I hung the bird feed­ers for the first time this fall. One hulled seed tube and one this­tle tube at the edge of the front yard next to a thicket of ever­green trees. An ideal spot. I had put off fill­ing the large sun­flower seed feeder (off to the left and not vis­i­ble in these […]

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Garden Report

7 September 2008

From some­one else’s gar­den. Here in Oax­aca you can buy flow­ers from ven­dors in the Zocalo. 45 pesos gets you enough baby gar­de­nias to fill two glasses. Heavenly.

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