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April 2022

April 27, 2022

Of Mice and Bees

For some reason I can post pictures this morning. How exciting! Well, I guess it...

May 2021

May 12, 2021

An Interlude in the Garden

The world seems such a wretched mess this morning I think I had better turn...

February 2021

February 05, 2021

7 Pining for the Garden Takes

It doesn't look like this today... It is an excessively gray day here in Binghamton....

May 2019

May 22, 2019

Furious Gardening

This is very important. I’ve skimmed like six articles on this critical subject (and also...

October 2018

October 04, 2018

My Annual Anxious Autumnal Angst

Turning enthusiastically away from politics this morning, I wonder, am I losing my mind? How...

June 2017

June 17, 2017

Book and Home Notes

I oughta be up and buzzing around, doing all the things because it's Saturday. But...

June 10, 2017

Me and My Binghamton Garden

This house is a hundred years old. It's hard for me to fathom, as I...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

Notes From Home: The Bird and The Soup

So there's this bird, this small horrible bird with a beak, who comes every morning...

May 17, 2017

A Bright Dystopian Now

Yesterday I summoned the energy to climb into the dying rhododendron to pull the weeds...

May 13, 2017

Rain Soaked Notes From Home

The rain is raining all around. It falls on field and trees...can't remember the rest....

August 2016

August 04, 2016

The Well Intended Hosta

I halted all reasonable and normal activity yesterday to dig up one of the massive...

July 2016

July 16, 2016

Saturday on the Regular Links

Starting to get back into the groove of regular life. Lots more unpacking to face...

May 2016

May 09, 2016

Bits and Pieces

It is a bright sunny morning, and the hillside is almost completely covered with green....

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Deep Summer

VBS is carrying along beautifully, as far as I can tell. All I have had...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Anne and her Binghamton Garden

I trust you all have read Elizabeth and her German Garden and understand the aptness...

July 20, 2015

Monday Morning Haze

Which it really is, a hot, hazy, cloud laden morning. Can't tell you how delighted...

June 2015

June 03, 2015

So many things to do

Everyone slept till 8:30, including me. The true sleep that comes at the end...

June 01, 2015

Monday Blech

Three nights of weird Nyquill induced nightmares have not improved my capacity to cope with...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

The Robin and Flowers

Have just been jarringly awakened by the sound of Matt shouting out the window at...

May 15, 2015

7 desperate takes

OneOh my word, I have so much to do. Every time I think I have...

May 09, 2015

Robins

The garden is packed with Robins, veritably jostling each other from sheer number, screeching loudly,...

May 07, 2015

Hope Springs Sometimes

We're trying to have flowering trees. Long long ago, in our foolish youth, when we...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

Weekend Catch Up

It's Monday and raining, which! For Real! I am not bitter about because yesterday and...

August 2014

August 01, 2014

7QT: Paint Paint Paint

One Praise The Lord July is over. A couple more days of painting and then...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Spam, and going the distance

I've actually just used up all my blogging time sifting through the mire of comment...

July 16, 2014

Just Getting Started

I might start school today. I've been thinking I would every week for the last...

July 08, 2014

Tuesdays in Time

Tuesdays are the best thing ever right now. Why, you ask. Tuesdays are an ordinary...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Context, Children, a little Dinner

We gardened our way through the weekend in a frenzied and hysterical way, as we...

June 19, 2014

Will There Be Enough: American Fruit Desserts

I humbled bragged yesterday on Facebook that I have a special charism for baked American...

June 02, 2014

Weekend in Review

I should be folding laundry and important stuff like that, but I thought I would...