Tag: gardening
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Bad Chickens
you look at what you did. look at what you did. that’s my mulberry tree! darn chicken!
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The Dragon will Soon Sleep
My garden draws me into its minute details derails my attempts to prevail with straight lines or orderly arrangements, continually demanding my engagement. The weeds are overgrown into the path again. The bees, butterflies, biting ants
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The Dragon will Soon Sleep
My garden draws me into its minute details derails my attempts to prevail with straight lines or orderly arrangements, continually demanding my engagement. The weeds are overgrown into the path again. The bees, butterflies, biting ants
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Beautiful Compost
Getting together some compost for my pots before the morning school run.
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The Strawberries are Coming
Soon, very soon, it will be time for the first harvest of 2016, Strawberries!
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Plans to Plant
I have plans to put these two couples to bed, and nurture some grapes and blackberries. Two things you could never have enough of for jam and juice or just fresh off the vine.
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Mobile Gardening
I’ve been weeding and carting and rolling and raking and hoeing too…
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Lavender in Winter
There are many flowers and smells and sights to gush about in the spring and summer, but some plants offer pleasures year-round. Lavender is perennial and evergreen. Lavender leaves smell just as strong as the flowers. If you rub the leaves between your fingers the scent will stick with you for awhile. The leaves are a…
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Not According to Plan
It’s been almost a month since I wrote about working on a new garden bed, and the majority of that time it was raining. Mr. Mims bought new timber, and the plan was to make the frame for the new raised bed over the holidays so that the boys could fill it with compost and chicken…
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Taking Stock after the Summer of Rain
Even with less than what we planned, we have enough. What’s more, after my husband completed the chicken coop and we successfully raised fourteen hens, we now collect fresh eggs every day from our chickens.
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Taking Stock after the Summer of Rain
Even with less than what we planned, we have enough. What’s more, after my husband completed the chicken coop and we successfully raised fourteen hens, we now collect fresh eggs every day from our chickens.
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How to Enjoy the Benefits of Your Labor
We all must learn to find enjoyment in our work, pay attention to the details, do the very best we can and contribute to a common cause. But we also have to enjoy the benefits!
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A Wild Visit
she announced herself in the early morning as if in a dream but wasn’t satisfied with that. she wanted to be recognized and appreciated for who she was not a peacock and not a songbird either, calling for her mate with a quarrelsome unmistakable voice playing hide and seek between the garden and the rooftops.