Hi! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted…which seems to be the norm in the past couple of years, haha. Blogging isn’t what it used to be; it used to be about just rambling on about life & whatever you felt compelled to ramble about, but it seems now “blogging” is similar to “publishing a magazine,”…
I’ve had grand garden dreams for ages (mentioned on this blog over the years), and yet I’ve never made them happen. [Insert a million reasons why here.] I did make a start on it a couple of years ago & even had a celosia go bonkers: When I moved to where I am now, I…
So several months ago, I bought two celosias. They were slightly scraggly, but I repotted them into one large pot & hoped for the best. They didn’t do very well…and one of them died. So I said well, ok, they didn’t look totally healthy when I bought them, and perhaps I’m not that good at…
Finally weeded my herb garden, and I must say, it was doing quite well under the “extra” growth. Has anyone ever done that on purpose? Let a bed “go to weed,” so to speak, to let the “wanted” plants establish? Seems a bit odd, but it seems to have worked. Tonight I made a new…
Finally I get to this…lol! I was tagged by Hedgewizard to do the seven random garden facts meme…and in true “me” fashion, I kept putting it off as I thought about it. Well, there’s no time like the present to stop thinking and start doing, especially when the present involves Bunnytinis and Luxan porn. (Ok,…
The other night roomie and I both made parts of dinner, and I made risotto with some fresh parsley from the garden and she used fresh rosemary on the chicken. Her green pepper plant has finally produced a pepper (it really does get too hot here in summer for much to grow), and I’m going…
Nothing like time spent among the Growing Things to revive a person, and when said time becomes magickal, well, that’s just icing on the cake. On Saturday I realized I needed to do a bunch of repotting and other general garden maintenance, despite the fact that I was still recovering a bit from Friday night….
When I weed, I don’t go halfway. I pull on my gloves and go in with both hands—and sometimes I forego the gloves, but then curse like a sailor hours later when trying to clean the dirt out of my cuticles that’s days down into my skin. I pull and dig while sweat pours into…
Ok, here is the promised picture of my new herb garden: [And this is an attempt to use pics from my brand-spanking-new integration of Gallery 2 into WordPress; the WPG2 plugin has its own way of doing things, so let’s see if/how it works]: 460 [Oy. Too small. I don’t want a thumbnail, I want…
I finally “convinced” Roomie to let me create an herb garden (it wasn’t easy—there was a lot of arm-twisting and hot-poker-to-the-eyes, but in the end I prevailed!). It’s fairly small, but I’ll take what I can get. ;-) She just refused to let me dig up half her yard for my mad gardening plans. Damn!…
Here are some pics from yesterday… The Big Freaking Toad! I suppose she feels safe here, as she doesn’t move when me or roomie see her in the pond. Doesn’t go under, doesn’t try to hide. Gorgeous! Devil’d Fadis! Heh… In this case, notice the Corona-shaped devil horns. Fadi, they weren’t quite as good as…
