Sunday I spent most of the day outside digging up the grass around my bird bath. I am sure my neighbors think I am crazy but I promise there is a method to my madness. The grass does not grow there it is just weeds and I try and plant flowers around there but they … Continue reading
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Weekend Re-Cap: A trip to Ace, dinner with girlfriends and AAA to the rescue
Saturday (and Sunday) my goal was to be extremely productive in the yard and surprisingly I was. Jeff, the kids and I went to Ace to get gardening stuff (plants, trellis, mulch, etc.). My daughter really wanted D batteries for the new ball popper that my brother bought Booga but $13 for batteries and the … Continue reading
The Garden… on a Tasty Tuesday
I honestly have not been doing a lot of cooking because dinner is usually something easy (i.e. cereal, Raman or pb&j). With the reservations line starting to pick up steam with St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday I have had my fair share of “interesting people.” I could have just grabbed something out of my recipe … Continue reading
Beer Bottle Plant Watering System–Eco Friendly
A couple weeks ago I tried an experimentation by filling a beer bottle with water and shoving it into a couple of my sad looking plants. After a little over a week of experimentation my report is A++! This works fantastic and I am so excited because I kill my indoor plants every thing that … Continue reading
The Story of The Bad Tree
This is a true story based on actual happenings from the past weekend. I decided I was going to clean my front flower beds this weekend. The weather was perfect and I was finally feeling well enough to go outside and work in the yard. I made great progress, discovered some poison ivy and a … Continue reading
My Indoor Garden Experiment
I love to garden it is relaxing and makes me feel good that I can grow food for my family (and flowers for myself). The flip side is I kill every plant I bring inside my house. Seriously my house is a DEAD ZONE, I have killed so many house plants and I have no … Continue reading
Garden Plan 2011
Oh yes it is that time of year to plan and start my GARDEN!!! This year I concluded my garden will be the same size as last year but I am going to modify it to produce more vegetables (companion gardening). This year I am moving the garden in by a foot from the fence … Continue reading
Things I am working on… (and a Show Plug!)
This has been a pretty busy week and it is only Tuesday (yes a double post today!) I have decided that I wanted to do something different with my art work this year (aka: exploring a new media) so I decided to try my hand at mixed media. I have a work in progress that … Continue reading
2010 Review (and a plug for Creative EdVentures)
Well this my last post of 2010 and what better way to end the year then to give a HUGE recap. I would also like to thank everyone for reading my blog I am aware that sometimes it has been a grammatical nightmare, I have gotten better (at least I think I have – lol) … Continue reading
The 2010 Garden Plan
I finally did it, I finally remembered to scan the garden plan! This more than likely makes no sense to anyone but me – lol. The garden is currently 14′ x 18′ the beds around the outside are 1′ wide. The 1′ beds have scallions, beets, radishes, 1 cantaloupe plant, beans, peas, carrots, 1 cucumber, … Continue reading
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