Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Nature, Photography on Dec 20th, 2009
Forgive me for shouting, but WE HAVE BLUEBIRDS! Can you tell I am excited???
We saw our first bluebirds at Happy Acres this week. I had them for years at my old place across the river. They were there already on the old farmstead when I showed up in 1984, and their descendants were still there [...]
Posted in Misc Rants, Traditions on Nov 24th, 2009
My wife and I went today to a local tree farm to pick out and tag our Christmas tree. This will be the fifth Christmas we’ve spent together, and our third here at Happy Acres. We have chosen to put up a “real” tree each year, decorating it with our combined abundance of old and new [...]
Posted in Misc Rants on Nov 3rd, 2009
Most Tuesdays I volunteer for a hot lunch program. We serve meals to anyone who cares to stop in, and this year business has been booming. The shelves are also bare at many food pantries, as the economy takes its toll on more and more folks. Every day I try and remember just how blessed [...]
Posted in Gardening on Oct 30th, 2009
Last year I started what was intended to be a butterfly garden, but which has since morphed into the Wild Garden. Oh, it still attracts lots of butterflies. But shortly after planting it I discovered it attracted much more. The bees arrived long before the butterflies found it. They loved the catmint blossoms, which happened to [...]
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An organic (mostly) gardener shares his thoughts about gardening, nature, food and being self-sufficient.
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