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if you live alone. we share this place (Mom and me) i can turn my back for an hour and end up with a sink full of dishes. it's ok, i like doing dishes, but that's not always what i plan on doing. yesterday and the day before were a good example. i didn't get the dishes done the day before so...

went out to get a garden ready for planting tomatoes, spent up until a few minutes ago weeding that garden and then parts of two other gardens and still haven't gotten the tomato holes dug. i haven't even checked the weather since this morning yet, so i'm going to do that now while i'm resting...

just give me the ice-cream for breakfast... coffee flavored is ok. butter pecan is better.

the ideas i might have are tempered by a lifetime of trying various things. some failures, some successes, most in between... i try not to get upset about things i can't really control - i can control my expectations and try to keep them lower to moderate. :)

i wonder if it would help to gradually increase them in the diet instead of eating a lot of them all at once?

plants got picked up. onions got planted and watered. :) i have an entire tray of Beaver Dam pepper plants. if i grow all of these plants i'm going to have to give a lot of them away!

the speedwells have been a mess for me ever since they were introduced via wildflower seed mixes. the tiny ones are very hard to remove from the lowest growing creeping thyme that i like the best. the worse problem i have with them is that they make my sinuses run. for the past few days and...

beautiful day outside and i'm actually getting some gardening done! :) :) :) no critter in the trap. watered peas, beans and garlic. started weeding a garden so i can plant onions. i even found a really tiny weed (Field Pennycress) which i brought in and took a picture of and since i needed...

the hard part with potted blueberries is keeping the soil evenly moist (i.e. watered enough but not too much or too little).

welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan. :)

Rocky Raccoon was in the trap this morning. i'm not surprised. i let him go and then reset the trap - i hope i scared him enough that he'll stay out of trap now, but ... we'll see. then we spent four hours fixing the fence where the deer went through, made a mess of things and i must say...

not really as i like them all. :) most beans are similar in flavor, but they can be distinctive enough in both flavor and texture that my favorite way to cook them is to get enough water to boil and then put the beans in and turn the heat down to a low simmer. stir once about every half hour...

to be more positive... today when i went out to check on the peas and beans the killdeer back there were having conniptions so i thought that perhaps the babies had hatched and my timing was perfect. there was only one baby already running around and the other three were still in the nest just...

and then... i went out to close the fence to make sure the groundhog would not find yet another way to get into the garden and frontside of the fence areas. as i was walking up to the house i heard this crashing noise and saw two large deer trying to run through the fence out front near the...

oh, ok... :) thanks for filling me in. :)

i scoped out the first pea and bean patch, peas are looking good, the beans are poking up but not a normal germination, but whatever ends up growing will be ok. i have a bunch more to plant the next few weeks... :) no pics yet...

i could be down for that... those are the last things they make that i still like - i haven't had any in some years. i don't understand the jewelry angle... acutely interested or obtuse can't figure...

Feeding our flying friends has changed them rather quickly: https://www.science.org/content/article/bird-feeders-have-caused-dramatic-evolution-california-hummingbirds 10 generations is quick... now, without looking how long do you think hummingbirds have been around and where do scientists...

i did get the livetrap set for the groundhog. i made sure to chain it to the fence so it won't get dragged away by something else (raccoons) or roll down into the water. not sure the groundhog will go for the bait with the change in habitat i did next to that spot where i placed the trap...

sorry, i didn't look that closely, i would guess they are not included yet on his website. :)