Posts Tagged "family"

Homegrown Goodness

Posted on June 27th, 2017

Now that we are starting to see and enjoy some nice weather, my family’s container gardens at our house are starting to take off.  My wife always requests that we have at least one big pot of herbs growing on our deck each summer and this year we have two.  My daughter, Nora, planted an […]

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Sweet Strawberry

Posted on June 20th, 2017

I was in a little bit of a jam last week, we were down a trailer because it was being serviced and I needed to move our mini excavator to a friend’s house; I was helping him level out his front yard.  I called in a favor from Rose’s next door and they let me […]

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A Small Piece of Summer

Posted on April 6th, 2017

My wife had a moment of panic last week, she had to dig deep down in our chest freezer to find the very last batch of tomatoes from last year’s garden.  She and I spent hours processing and freezing as many vegetables as we could to use throughout the winter.  It’s a sad moment when […]

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Finding the Bright Side

Posted on March 13th, 2017

I don’t know about you guys but this is a smack in the weather-reality face. We have been experiencing such a mild winter and spring-like temperatures but then bitterly cold days and now SNOW!  There is one good thing about snow, it is a natural insulator.  Any plants that have started to break dormancy will […]

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