greeeeeeeeeeeeeeens!

The bug netting experiment seems to be a huge success. I think I’d like to explore an alternative to shoving the netting edge back into the dirt. Perhaps boards attached to the netting that clip to the bed… The PEX piping functions well, even if it doesn’t exactly hold the original shape. I’m rather proud […]

out of the garden…

…with the tastes of summer October! Pulling vine-ripened tomatoes on October 6th. The basil got blasted in the last cool spell, so I have to seek out good leaves, but about half of the tomato plants have lost their place on the calendar. This. This is the garden living we’ve been moving toward…

a convenient find

A belated birthday gift for my husband: an almost complete duplicate set of our discontinued flatware. Now, we have enough dinner forks so that we can pack away “those horrible mutant forks” until whenever we might be able to host an open house again… PS. “those horrible mutant forks” = salad forks…

the great flower migration

Now that the garden’s fence is built, I need to develop flower beds in front of the fenceline. When we first bought our wabi-sabi cottage, we brought flowers with us from the old house. We also received a generous offer from my father-in-law to transplant any flowers we dug up from his farm. That brought […]

uhura rounds them out!

At last, she is ours! Today was the second premiere for 2020 Hallmark Keepsake ornaments, which includes the Lieutenant Nyota Uhura storyteller, the fourth and final piece in this year’s Mirror, Mirror storyteller collection. Somebody somewhere knows the power of this character, because she always seems to be a delayed release or a limited edition. […]

rainy days on sundays

…don’t get me down. not in the garden, anyway.

thinning the crop

I thinned out some of the fall brassicae, this time those I pulled to make room are large enough for food. The screen netting is working well to this point. Healthy, lush, greens are filling in and climbing taller in the crisp cool air. A broad mix of brassicae, with two varieties of Swiss chard […]

curing the kamado

With our new patio space cleared, we were excited to grill our first meal on our new makado charcoal grill. Then we noticed and read the Curing the Kamado section of the manual. Okay, so maybe we grill our first meal tomorrow… The Charcoal Grilling Life starts at the Wabi-Sabi Cottage today!

closing the fence

The fence is ninety-eight percent finished, but it is one hundred percent puppy safe now. Tiger can join us in the garden off-leash. Yesterday, I closed in the gate frames with lattice, mounted the latch, and drilled the driveway for the drop post. Today, I framed out the gates including the top rail, started cutting […]

back to the garden…

Another week off from work: this time the summer heat has broken, meaning it’s easier to spend more time on garden projects. I spent yesterday morning working on the last gate of the fence project. The cooler weather this week should help me check this item off the list. The bottom of our drive will […]