From our deck, you can look out over our large backyard and see almost endless possibility. Morning and late afternoon sun give the area a beautiful glow. It seems like a perfect place to spend a summer afternoon lazing in a hammock or playing a spirited game of croquet. It is not. But it soon […]
Continue readingMindfully putting away the cigarettes
As of this writing, I am a non-smoker for a month-and-a-week-plus, after smoking a pack of cigarettes each and every day for almost 30 years. Ridding myself of cigarettes is a wonderful feeling, and I am certain I will be smoke-free for the rest of my life. That certainty — knowing that I will succeed in […]
Continue readingWindowsill Salad Garden
I’m ready for a big, hearty salad out of my own garden — NOW! But my lettuces, although lovely and green, are still rather small. If I picked them all I could come up with one good chef’s salad, but that would be it, and I’m impatient! What’s a girl to do? Sprouts to the […]
Continue readingBeekeeping in the ‘burbs
I’d seen an ad for a meeting about beekeeping in the Homewood Star, a paper and online publication for news and entertainment in Homewood, our little community. The talk would be held at the new Sims Ecoscape site, a plot of land donated to the city of Homewood for ecological efforts by Catherine Sims for the use […]
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