It's been yet another busy couple of weeks. We had our 15 year wedding anniversary (20 years together) and had a lovely couple of days with a dinner at home with the girls on our actual anniversary and a night out in San Antonio the next night just the two of us. It is my …
Been a while! I mean, not for y'all, I had a ton of scheduled posts that I launched while I was tied up elsewhere, but we've had a number of busy weeks and weekends. Work Travel! Sickness! Hosting a neighborhood plant swap party! A 10 year old's birthday that involved a trip to NASA to …
*This is, I promise, not a thumb in the eye to everyone dealing with something rhyming with "bee molar cortex."* Winter in Texas is different. We still have to mow- not because the grass isn't mostly dormant- it is- but because the weeds aren't. So the yard is still green, just don't look too closely …
We had our first freeze this past week, and some dry days... so this happened: So the tomatoes are done for- we pulled them out and piled as many as we could in the fire pit. We let them dry out a few days and then torched them this weekend, quasi viking funeral style. The …
The garden in August is a lesson in survival and non-survival. Miss a day's watering and your three year old spirea is toast. (Not a hypothetical example). It's cut to the ground and is starting to leaf back out- that was touch and go though, it was in no way a given that it would …
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Just kidding, it's another post about ice dying and the garden. So... after the debacle of the last 2 scarves... THIRTY pashminas and scarves and then 20 handkerchiefs showed up... creating a bit of uneasiness on the order of WELL WHAT THE HELL AM I GONNA DO NOW?! So... first step. Test every scarf with …
The garden got some much needed rain and cooler temperatures for a couple of evenings (80s! break out the sweaters!). And today, with overcast skies still it's a good opportunity for some pictures that aren't completely sunbaked and lost in high contrast shadows. So I give you... the dahlias! Here's the thing. Just like cannas, …
