”When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.” ~ Erma Bombeck Ahh, this week looked so promising on Monday. Sunshine predicted all week, I had most of my errands out of the way. I was primed for a weeks [...]
Archive | May, 2012
The City of Gardens.
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~ Ernest Hemingway My friend Sharon and I met almost 20 years ago over battered fish fillets while working the deep fat fryer at the Myer City Foodhall. We became almost instant friends. Our birthdays are close [...]
Veggie Patch Blues.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. ~ Christina Rossetti Last week, I took you on a tour of my Autumn Garden. I am so chuffed to see the parts of my garden that are planted up and doing well, but they contrast with some remaining disappointments. My big frontal turn [...]
A Tour of my Autumn Garden
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ~ Vita Sackville-West If you were wondering why I haven’t posted for a while, this week has been perfect garden weather. So I swapped the keyboard for the trowel. Lots of showers, punctuated with bursts of lovely [...]
Stark Raving Potty…
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~James G. Watt For my birthday, the kids (Husband) chose for me an awesome piece of potty kit. I had seen them before, a little wooden thingy that makes newspaper into seedling pots. The one I have makes pots in three different sizes. It’s a fantastic little piece of [...]
Getting Clucky….
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959 When I told Husband that I was starting to feel a bit clucky earlier in the week, he almost drove the car off the road in surprise. You see, we have three kids. That’s plenty [...]
The Recycler’s Paradise
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.” ~ R. Buckminster Fuller* Today, My husband took the day off to help me celebrate my birthday. ”The day is yours my darling!” he exclaimed “I am at your beck and call. We [...]
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