Here’s to your Health!
I have long been an advocate to promoting gardens and gardening as a pathway to a healthy lifestyle. Aunt Sister lived to the ripe old age of 94. One day, she announced she was going out back to pull weeds. After she’d been out there awhile, someone thought...
“Read these Leaves…”
…is a line from a favorite Walt Whitman poem of mine called, “This is What You Shall Do.” Sounds rather like the 10 Commandments according to Walt Whitman, but the flavor is not all that different. Some of the remaining lines after the above are:...
Mellow Yellow…
Mellow: Defined as: 1. Sweet, soft, juicy and full-flavored because of ripeness; 2. Rich and soft in quality; 3. Having the gentleness, wisdom or dignity often characteristic of wisdom; 4. Relaxed and at ease; genial; 5. Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated; 6. Moist,...
In the Heat of the Night….
Boy was it a hot week…Night and Day…. All winter we want to be warm and then we get weeks like last week. Whew! One job site was filled with poison ivy. Yikes! The homeowner, an elderly couple, have a hard time keeping up with some of the garden work plus...
Buzzers, Bees and Birds
“Our nearly universal animosity toward insects is understandable, but seriously misplaced. Of the 4 million or so insect species on earth (to put things in perspective, there are only about 9500 species of birds), a mere 1 percent interact with humans in...Work With Jeannie
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