Each year I like to try new varieties of the crop menagerie at the farm, and this year is no exception. It is so hard to resist buying one of everything in the seed catalogs when it is stark, naked, winter, but better judgement must take over because there are only so many garden beds [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2011
Dogs are the funniest people……
Late this afternoon–make that “greatly sunny” afternoon I took a break in a porch swing on the west side of the house. The 4 resident dogs decided to join me. Me, Hattie and Reuben (the Catahoulas), Angus (the Boxer) and Cooper (the Bad-Haired Terrier) were soaking up some rays when Angus noticed a ball of [...]
Late winter “blues”
Here in Tennessee this winter has become one of the nastiest and coldest that I remember and much of the winter has been spent working inside. Several projects have been completed inside the house, namely flooring and stair railing. Yesterday was a late winter “blues gift” of blue skies and a beautiful day where [...]