Posted in Gardening, Health, tagged broccoli, cherries, Health on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s the end of a wonderful long holiday weekend. I loved having this four day weekend (my employer gave us Thursday off, too!). I got to enjoy some more of my yummy garden produce…
And I got lots of rest. On Independence Day, Laura, Matt (her boyfriend) and I grabbed some buckets and headed next door [...]
Posted in Gardening, Urban Life, tagged party, summer on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summer goes by at warp speed here in Chicago. Once the weather starts to warm a bit, the pace of outdoor social activities and events works up to a frenzied pace pretty quickly. Here it is the end of June already and we are in the thick of it.
Yesterday I had my pick of all [...]
Posted in Gardening, tagged Gardening, roses, Zephirine Drouhin on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had a difficult week with pressing deadlines at work and really low energy. But, I found time to get outside into the yard last night and tonight.
Last night was all about weeding. The plentiful rain has helped many weed seeds germinate fairly quickly. I focused on the veggie beds last night for only about [...]
Posted in Gardening, Urban Life, tagged Gardening, roses on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, this past week was great if you’re a plant. We’ve had rain and high humidity nearly every day for the past week. While there’s been no need to water the garden, it has been difficult to do general maintenance chores like weeding when it’s this wet and generally icky outside.
My garden is filling out [...]
Posted in Chickens, Gardening, Urban Life on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been quite a week for us!
The extra long holiday weekend allowed us to keep up with the usual chores and fit in some extra fun. So, we took a road trip out to visit with Andrew and Misty of Geek.Farm.Life podcast fame. We went out for an enormous brunch, made cream, butter, and bread [...]
Posted in Chickens, Food, Gardening, tagged arugula, Gardening, lettuce, peas on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It may not be apparent, but it was my interest in gardening that first led me to keeping chickens. I love to garden, and I really love to grow food. It makes me feel empowered and more in touch with my body, and it also makes me feel somewhat…virtuous.
From looking at history through books and [...]
Posted in Gardening on April 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We’re back! We’ve actually been home since Thursday night, but I had no time to write until today. Friday was for catch up at work, and today…ah…today has been for working in the garden.
I have a new friend who helped me garden today. Laura is a friend of Rachael’s who is just as crazy about [...]
Posted in Gardening, tagged Dogs on July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
At this time of year I’m usually kicking back and enjoying my garden. The spring is usually the time of year where there is lots of hard work in the garden. But this year the cicada scare in the area delayed things quite a bit. I went round and round with the landscaper about when [...]
Posted in Gardening, Knitting, tagged Socks on May 9, 2007 | No Comments »
That’s been my theme song for the past couple weeks: just takin’ care of business. This is typically the busiest time of year for me and “my people” — gardeners, that is. Spring is a time of high activity, although it hasn’t been that high for me this year. And that’s kind of driving me [...]
Posted in Gardening, Knitting, Vacations and Travel, tagged Arizona, Sedona, Socks on April 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I don’t think there is a finer place to be in the world than sitting on my back porch on a sunny, pleasantly warm spring day. I’m not the only one with this opinion, either. My mother-in-law stopped by yesterday morning for a visit. We sat on the porch sipping tea, nibbling on fresh fruit, [...]
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