Tag: gardening

  • Digging into Writing

    Digging into Writing

    My weekly post is up at ASM: Click Here I compare two of my favorite pasttimes to one another, gardening and writing. Also, how editing is a lot like weeding!

  • Planting the Garden and Distractions

    I’ve been working on getting the garden planted. I had a ton of melon and squash starts to get in, finished those today. I planted cucumbers, golden and blue Hubbard squash, watermelon sugar baby, Melons Jenny Lind, Crenshaw, Sweet Granite, Pixie, Charentais, and one that Johann lost the label to. I put in butternut squash…

  • More Dirt

    It’s still raining, and I’m still not getting anything done outside, although I have been spring-cleaning and working at the library. Dad’s still up at Toad Hall eating bon-bons. He’s gotten the all clear from the doctors – they got all the cancer and he won’t have to get any follow up treatment. That was…

  • Rainy Day Activities

    It’s been raining since Sunday, three days now. Which has put a cramp in my plans, a bit. But it has allowed us to get some things done inside that needed doing. Like going through all the seeds and sorting out what needed to be planted now, and what will be planted later in the…

  • Popovers and Chicks

    My popovers didn’t “pop” but they still tasted awesome, especially with the blueberry jam that we put up last summer on it. I think next time I will use a metal pan, the silicone muffin tins didn’t work well for this! The little golden ones are Golden-Pencilled Hamburgs, and the black and white ones are…