Recent content by SPedigrees

Yeah, I gave up the period after "etc" too. I think texting generated a lot of dropped punctuation marks (although I don't even have a phone with texting, so go figure).

Love those sunflowers! I grew red ones one year too - just beautiful!

I find myself getting the bug to grow things now that the outside world is lifeless, cold, and snow-covered. The Christmas tree has been filling my need for living plant-life with its delightful smell, but today's project is to undecorate it and fling it over the porch railings, to be hauled up...

Its purpose is not to indicate a pause in the spoken sentence, but for clarity in the written word. "I'd like to thank my parents, Jane Carter, and Alex Macintyre." makes it clear that the speaker is thanking 4 individuals, whereas "I'd like to thank my parents, Jane Carter and Alex...

Me too. It may be archaic, but it won't be obsolete until those of us who learned this are dead, and I'm not dead yet.

Pretty much, yeah. Keep the faith!

Welcome Joao. I'm here in the northeast of the US, so probably close the same growing zone as you. It's cold here now with snow on the ground. I don't grow much in summer anymore, just tomatoes and squash or cucumbers usually, but I and my late husband planted a lot of trees over the past ten...

They, and other marketing platforms, have dispatched poorly trained AI bots which have replaced humans, with no oversight and predictable results. Not sure how the UK post is, but here in the US a typical recent screwup was a package sent to Boston MA (short for Massachusetts) going to MD...

Two spaces. I'm older than dirt. (Text editors irritate me when they excise one of the two spaces I have deliberately left between sentences, but there seems no remedy for it. Witness this message, my extra spaces were obliterated without my consent. Code for these programs was written by...

He got hit by the old age truck. (So did I.)

Poor little squeaker; RIP. Good kitty.

Carson is such a good babysitter!

Happy 2026 to all you easy gardeners out there. According to the Chinese zodiac, this will be the year of the fire horse. It's the season of house plants for those of us in northern climates without heated greenhouses. The geraniums I rooted from slips this fall, and the coleus I grew from...

A battery-powered drill is essential, even for in-house projects. (One can never have enough tools.)

Torrential rain, all snow now melted, and high winds today here. Crazy weather!