The blooms from my garden are beautiful this year. Last year I had very few because the plants were fairly new. This year my daylilies and asiatic lilies have decided to bloom. I just wanted to share my bounty of…
Category: The Garden
Evil Among Us, 1: What's the Fascination with The Occult?
This will be my first in a series of posts examining this question and the origins of popular occult practices. The word occult can mean something as simple as being hidden from view. When used as a noun as in…
Update on Winter Sowing Experiment
Believe it or not some of my wintersown seeds that actually bore seedlings are just getting into their permanent home in the ground. I have some White Swan Echinacea and Japanese Irises that actually sprouted in June and survived the…
Hail Shreds Local Plantlife
Last Sunday we had a hailstorm that ripped through Northwest Ohio. It took a full 20 to 30 minutes to pass each place it hit. This gave it a chance to pummel the trees, flowers, and crops across the region. …
It's been a good week to be outside
This week the weather has been in the low 70’s and beautiful. Not until today have we had rain. All the windows in the house were open until yesterday when the temperature peaked above 80 and the house was getting…
Hardening Off my Tomato and Pepper Seedlings
It has taken a while but finally the pepper seedlings have come up. Probably, I could have taken the tomatoes out about a week ago, but morning sickness had me doubled over and too tired to care much about seedlings. …
Transferring Seedlings to Pots
This is always one thing that makes me nervous in the growing process – repotting your new seedlings. Sherxr from Ur Resident Chef had a question about when and how to repot. Well, I’ve had my share of successes and…
Sowing Seeds of Love
Over the past few weeks since I started my workout routine I had a feeling that something was up. If you’ve read my blog posts from the beginning you’ll find some irony in what I’m about to tell you. After…
Winter Sowing Experiment Follow Up
Even though it seems I’ve had more failure than success at this endeavor it wasn’t a total loss. There are some Japanese Irises that are growing; they are no more than 1/2 an inch tall, but they are growing. Also,…
Most Disgusting Restaurant Offerings, #1
I’ve been reading many blogs lately about food. Everyone talks about the foods they love and the best meals they’ve had. Given the fact that right now nothing sounds good to me, not even my favorite foods, it gave me…
