Tag: gardening on a budget
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Hold Still and Hope January Doesn’t Notice You
Seriously, no sudden moves, no bold proclamations. January is a trickster. Everything is going pretty good, the weather warmed up a bit, it’s still a little light out at 5 pm, you’re feeling cautiously optimistic and then BAM! someone spikes a high fever. And it pours rain for 12 hours straight. Am I envious of…
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Cozy Christmas
My homemade, handcrafted holidays are finally over, though I’ve still got time off coming up to enjoy. Last Tuesday and Wednesday I was on my feet a lot, and definitely had moments of “never doing this again.” Two of the kids were sick and thus I didn’t have a lot of help in terms of…
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A Cheapskate’s Guide to Repurposing Household Items in the Garden
The garlic is starting to poke through the leaves! Not surprisingly, it seems the cloves I planted that had already sprouted are the first to reach the surface. Four of them are up. This makes me happy. Some of the lettuce and arugula seeds I planted have sprouted. Too soon to tell which is which.…
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Life in the ’20s
Taking a second to plug what I wrote a few years ago, Edith, Emma and Me. From time to time I think about self-publishing it on Amazon, or reworking it as a long essay with a bit of a different focus. I also have thought about writing something fictional based on some of what I…
Garden State of Mind 