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That's a good reason! For the past 20 years we had an artificial tree which still lives up in the attic, along with our lifetime's collection of ornaments. After DH passed, I retired our tree and ornaments, partly because it was a 2 man job to bring this stuff downstairs, and also because it...

Maybe this is normal growth for them then. If they were suffering from lack of water, I wonder if I would know. Cacti can be hard to read!

That's what I do now, and have done for all their lives. The problem is that cacti in the SW deserts are now suffering and dying due to climate change's extreme hot temperatures. I suspect that these SW deserts are also suffering from drought, since rainfall there has been few and far between...

I planted these little guys from seed about 10 years ago and they seem ok but haven't grown much at all in the last 5 years. They are on a windowsill that gets a fair amount of sunlight in summer, but sunlight is scarce here in winter. Also this room tends to be warmish even with the A/C in...

This year's Christmas tree by day. It's a spruce, not quite as fragrant as a fir but still smells nice. It's lashed to the walls with rope and sits in a bucket of rocks and water. This crowded hallway is the only free space for a tree in my house which is crammed full of a lifetime's worth of...

Beautiful! Love the snow covered photos - what kind of fruit trees are those in the foreground? We've had but one snowfall which is all melted now. Looks like another green December. We'll probably get socked with blizzards later in winter. At least I can still walk my dog so she's not...

:-) Still fun and something to think about.

Missing from this poll are flowers, both annual and perennial. Time was perennial flowering plants would have headed my list. Now it's a toss-up between my potted outdoor porch plants and vegies in a raised bed behind the house.

I suppose in the "deep dark hollers where the sun don't never shine" I wouldn't like it either. But I live halfway up a mountain, so that's a very different perspective.

But you have the lake, which is very close to being an ocean. I love mountains, but I also love the seashore and could be happy in a coastal area.

A bowl of spaghetti for a modest lunch (with a glass of milk and some carrot and celery sticks, not shown) made me suddenly realize that now, months after dealing with my over-abundant harvest, there is something enjoyable about eating something in winter that came from one's own garden. With...

Happy International Mountain Day from here in the Green Mountain State! The rain today melted our snow, but snow is still on the mountains around me.

Oh I see now. At first glance it looked like the bed of a truck. So Sheba's newly claimed bedroom will last awhile.

That bed looks like the king of comfort. She won't be thrilled when you unload all this hay.

Thankfully it appears that both Aerial and Sugar can count, "One, Two." Are twins the norm with sheep?

Thank you! This is interesting, and I'm definitely going to look into getting azomite and trying it out.

Ha ha! Their official name is "Candyland" currant-sized tomatoes. They are very small!

These bright colored seed catalogs are always so welcome when the world outside has turned to monochromatic shades of white. I have almost all the seeds I need, but I love looking through the pages and dreaming of summer. The arrival of the latest catalog reminded me that my saved seeds...

I'm so sorry to read this. At least this explains his symptoms and you won't have to put him and yourself through more stressful vet visits except for the final one on Tuesday. This is very sad.

Too much rain will dilute flavor? I didn't know that. Here's hoping we have drier conditions next summer.