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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 last most […]

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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 recover. The jerusalem […]

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 pictures) […]

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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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What’s Blooming

25 June 2008

Last week in the gar­den we had:
Daisies every­where. The pas­ture is cov­ered with them.
On the west side of the house we have the slen­der deutzia in bloom at the back of the herb bed.

And sea pinks sur­round­ing the inceeas­ingly tall lily stalks.

My peonies are almost ready to bloom. Actu­ally this pic­ture is form sev­eral days ago and […]

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Garden Report

23 May 2008

We’re build­ing a lot of stone walls this year. When we first had the lawns and beds installed we didn’t have the time and money to build the bed walls that we wanted so we used the black plas­tic edg­ing to keep the grass out of the beds (sort of) This year we’re replac­ing the […]

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