Friday morning both helpers arrived and I set my general helper to starting the seeds and my helper friend tackled the huge mess in the old mud room. It was all the stuff from the cellar that needed to

Monday was a lovely sunny day. The blue sky was so clear, deeply blue in the morning when I got ready to go to the bulb show. Most of the trees along the west end of the driveway are oaks. But I could

On Monday morning I set to work and got laundry started and chores done and about 9:30AM I got started putting the last of the lights on the tree. I finished about 1PM. The standing to do it takes a lot

On Friday, after another bad night, I was struggling to get going by 8AM when my 2 helpers would arrive. I went out to feed the cats and ended up spending 20 minutes taking photos of the lovely spring

This is Lily. She’s taken over the box where the chicks’ heating pads are stored. If you look carefully past her left ear you can see an orange spot. That’s Dennis the Girl in the hay box. Dennis waiting

These were my kale seedlings, Lacinato on left, Vates curly on right, a couple days ago. I had hoped to put a lot of seedlings out in the cold frame this week, but we are to expect below freezing temps

@thebigsweed asked the other day how the seedlings were coming along, so I thought I’d put a couple shots of them in here. These are (back 2 trays) the storage onions, Cortland variety, that have always

There’s really a fence in there… I finally finished all the house drawings on Sunday, so Monday morning, a nice cool, low humidity morning, I was back out in the gardens. I’d decided to tackle the Big

Melissa, retired barn cat, helping watch a movie 2011 We’ve had a good many barn cats over the decades. Many of them have lived until their late teens. When they start to get feeble, they become house