All Blog Posts Tagged 'garden' (24)

Yesterday was relatively cool (low 70s rather than mid-90s), so I spent some time weeding my corner garden. One…

My first Gift will be a kind of project, and include several parts of work. I live in a town with lots of abandoned houses, which slowly fall apart, despite still being beautiful. Most of them have gardens, which, of course, are overgrown and unkempt. Unfortunately, many people see those gardens as a dumpster, and throw their trash into them. My project is to go and clean some of the gardens, gather the trash, clean the passageways and to plant a few flowers in the abandoned flowerbeds. I…

White lilacs from my front yard

Today Addy had a dentist appointment. At her last cleaning/exam, we found out…

I am exceedingly grateful that today was just another day. As usual, my husband and I stopped at our regular convenience store on the way to dropping the kids off at school for our morning carbonated caffeine addictions. I left $10.00 and a 29 Gifts Note Card with the cashier and told her to apply it to the gas purchase of the…

VJG   08-24-11   "'matoes", A Good Report, and Something Else (???)

"'matoes" - (That's what our granddaughter used to call them.)

My girlfriend and I were able to catch up on each other's lives recently.  During our phone conversation I told her about my garden that Gerry and I planted earlier this summer.  She and I raved over the taste of home-grown tomatoes.  I told her how I love sprinkling tomatoes…

The forecast for today was rain, but in spite of overcast skies, the rain held off. A good thing for me, because I spent the better part of the day weeding, weeding, weeding. Got the front done, no small task since we don't have a lawn -- it's all garden. And a wild tangle of a garden it's become, too. If I try to think of pulling weeds as "harvesting future compost," it helps make the task seem a little more like production instead of running hard to keep up with the weeds (which I…

Today was my once-every-two-weeks run out to the big box pet food store across town to stock up on kitty and bird supplies. At the register there was, as there often is, the opportunity to donate a dollar or round up the total to support one local animal cause or another. I did the dollar donation, which was gift one.

Then came an overdue Changing of the Cat Boxes, fresh litter all around.

Then off to the newly-formed spinning group, which I'll probably only get to once or…

To all mommies out there who are honored today, I hope you had a happy Mother's Day.

Ours started by picking up my mother and step-guy to take them out to brunch at the resort at the Oregon Gardens. It was far too  rainy to tour the gardens, and they're not much on garden walking now anyway, but brunch was lovely. The view from the resort…

Kitty had a lump on her side for months, a lump that I figured was just a cyst or a fatty tumor. Sunday the lump opened up and spilled a lot of nastiness. I kept it clean for a couple of days to see if it would heal on its own, since it didn't seem to bother her and she wasn't looking ill, but by today it looked like it wouldn't heal without help. So Kitty got a trip to the kitty doctor today, where they had to clean out the wound and remove necrotic tissue from whatever the mystery lump had…

Somewhere between Day 14 and Day 15 is the halfway point to the 29 days of giving. If I can get halfway, then by golly, I can get all the way and beyond.

Today started with a trip to the pet food store to stock up on kitty rations for a couple of weeks -- the store is across town so to save gas a little I try to go there every two weeks instead of every week. As sometimes happens at checkout, they ask if I can donate to animal shelters or spay/neuter efforts. This week it was a…