Small Yard Composting
April 27, 2010
Composting is very easy and because it's totally natural, happens regardless of our intervention. However, the better you manage the three basic elements the quicker you'll have "black gold" to add to your garden. Also, a well managed compost will be less smelly and be more pleasant to deal with. This is decomposition we're talking about afterall.
Easy home herbs for Summer
April 24, 2010
I'm not meaning to jump the gun on spring here. I'm still very much in the season and I'm loving the new green and emerging blossoms very much. But we all know that what grows in summer is planted in spring and if you want to have herbs on hand ...
Sweet stuff for Spring
April 22, 2010
I'm off for the weekend with my family for our first backpacking trip of the season. Now that I've tasted camping for real - in the woods, no cars and no running water (except the stream) I don't know that I want to go back to campground camping. We're re-visiting ...
FIMBY Spring Housekeeping
April 20, 2010
I've noticed a few new names commenting as of late so I'm going to assume I may have new readers, or maybe just folks coming out of lurkdom (I lurk on other blogs also, so I understand). If you are new here, or been reading awhile, I want to show ...
Spring morning at the pond
April 19, 2010
The college Damien works at, five minutes from our house, has a small pond on its campus. The campus itself is very beautiful. Old brick building, white bell towers and green spaces. Very New England college feel. But the "natural" jewel of the college grounds is the man made pond. ...
Ode to our old car
April 17, 2010
We bought a "new" vehicle last week. We reached the point where it no longer made financial sense to own a car 17 years old with over 230,000 miles driven when we're not mechanics. So we've upgraded to 1999 Toyota RAV4, only 11 years old. Great mileage and in good ...
I garden for beauty
April 15, 2010
All the photos in this post are of flowers grown in our yard. There's not many blossoms right now to photograph, besides hyacinth and daffodils, so I copied some of my favorites from past years (featured in the gallery) to highlight here. We live in a tight urban neighborhood. This ...
