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“Why try to explain miracles to your children when you can have them plant a garden.” -Janet Kilburn Phillips Last month, I posted about how our vegetable garden is a family affair for my son and his kids. They’ve grown up helping in the garden, planting and picking and even preserving the vegetables by helping with the canning and freezing. …
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” — Gertrude Jekyll Do you have a vegetable garden? Or have you ever had one? When I was a kid, I assumed everyone had a garden. Out where I lived in the country, everybody did, and …
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It’s green bean time in our garden. I grow stick beans. Those are beans that you have to supply something for the vines to grow up onto. We use an overhead wire strung between wooden posts and then twine strings attached to the wire …
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. ~Alfred Austin Do you have a garden? I’m a farm girl so having a vegetable garden has always felt like a necessity and not a …
My spring giveaway is finished. It was fun hearing about all your favorite flowers. Some favorites were hardy varieties easy to grow like daffodils, sunflowers, tulips, iris, sweet peas and columbine. Sometimes the flowers were the kind Mother Nature plants and tends, like field daisies, Dutchman’s Breeches, honeysuckle, and violets you find out in your grass lawns. We had the …
A bubbling pot of sweet goodness. That’s what you’re seeing here. I was making jam out of a combination of blackberries and boysenberries with some raspberries (frozen earlier for just this purpose) mixed in to make the whole pot sweeter. And that’s where the roots and connections come in. That’s what my grandmother did and my mother did before me. …
I bailed my big old chocolate Lab out of doggie jail on Monday. Somebody had picked him up on Thursday and turned him into the animal shelter, but I couldn’t get any answer at the shelter until Monday because of the holiday weekend. Poor old dog had to sit in that cage all weekend. I have his tags, but had …
The tea at Clear Creek was great. And I found out the church is way over 200 years old. It was established in 1785. Wow! And it is a beautiful church with beautiful people. My talk wasn’t as good as I’d hoped it would be. I can never decide whether more practice is better or less practice is better. Sometimes …