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Susan's fancy: July 2015
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Tuesday, July 28, 2015. If thy bean offend thee. It's been hotter than blue blazes around here for the past few days. What with the heat and all the corn-putting-up and the wallpaper-taking-down, the vegetable garden has been neglected these past few days. (By me, at least; the varmints apparently have been visiting regularly.) Yesterday when I came home from work, I pulled into Nanny's driveway instead of mine and went to see what needed doing. Links to this post.
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Susan's fancy: May 2015
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Thursday, May 28, 2015. I'm so tired it hurts to move. No, it's not from working in the vegetable garden, it's from cleaning closets. Two of them. Filled up half a dozen garbage bags with stuff like old clothing and video games that haven't worked since my boys (now grown and married) were kids. Found cool stuff I'd forgotten about. Got it all back in (minus the 6 bags full), in orderly fashion. Took more than 6 hours. Back in Old Testament days, the story goes tha...
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Susan's fancy: March 2014
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Saturday, March 8, 2014. Cousin Roger and the Kefir. Cousin Roger came over from across the road today. He came in with a beer in one hand and some paperwork that he needed some help with in the other. After The Husband got the paperwork fixed up, Roger sat back to visit a while and tell us about the date he had lined up for this evening. He looked suspicious. "What is it? I said, "Well, you might be regular by tomorrow.". Let me speak to The Husband," Roger said.
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Susan's fancy: April 2014
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Tuesday, April 22, 2014. About those early tomatoes. I planted 8 tomato plants on the 12th of April. On the 14th, we had a cold snap that brought a light frost for a couple of nights. I did not cover the tomato plants because the cold snap sneaked up on me. They are now brown and crispy. Dead, you might say. Links to this post. Monday, April 14, 2014. Maybe the tomatoes will be safe nestled in their straw beds. Links to this post. Wednesday, April 2, 2014. So I cam...
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Susan's fancy: June 2015
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Monday, June 29, 2015. The Trickster in the Shed. I am convinced that there is a trickster living in the garden shed. He/She/It vandalizes power equipment and hides things, and sometimes it goes out to the garden and digs up seeds and plants grass and weeds. I said, "Yeah, it is. We've had 'issues'.". He noted that some of the rows were "skippy.". Gee, I hadn't noticed. :-. Truth is that nothing but grass will grow in part of the garden, that low spot in the northw...
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Susan's fancy: March 2015
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Now, Cousin Roger across the road has a white pit bull named Homey. Homey loves a stick better than anything. He doesn't fetch, exactly; what he does is grab the stick (or whatever you're holding) from your hand and run with it like a crazy dog. He zooms by at full speed, back arched, hind feet mostly parallel to the ground, almost close enough - almost! Thead, look here what I've got! Muttering words that would shock the parson, I searched...
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Susan's fancy: Flora-cide
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Monday, July 6, 2015. If plants could vocalize, I would be hearing weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth all around me, for we wreaked havoc in our yard this weekend. The back yard looks shockingly bare, except for the heaps of wilting flowers and limbs piled around it. Hopefully, most of it will be back next year. I dug up my favorite rose bush and moved it, but I fear that I vandalized the roots so badly that it may not survive. If thy bean offend thee. Water...
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Susan's fancy: The Writing on the Wall
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Saturday, July 25, 2015. The Writing on the Wall. He put the magic marker behind his back right quick, and said, "Josh" (his older brother). Yesterday, in preparation for a painter who is supposed to come this week, I began removing wallpaper from the hallway outside his room. Under the very first strip I removed, I found this about waist high on the wall:. He'd learned to write his "L" properly by then. Seconds later came his reply:. I'd had my weekend all planned!
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Susan's fancy: February 2014
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Gardening in Zone 7 (working for food). Saturday, February 22, 2014. We are already regretting it. Every significant movement is accompanied by an agonized groan. We may not be able to get out of bed in the morning. Links to this post. Sunday, February 9, 2014. Monday afternoon, as I was in the kitchen, pondering what to do about supper, I heard a CRACK! Like a pistol shot, and a WHOOSH! And a sound like a thousand martini glasses crashing off a shelf. I ran to the window in time to see the last of t...
