(i’ll never not be fascinated by the coleus) a few days ago i got a nice email from my friend kim and i often exchange fun packages (we really do have to restart our chocolate exchange kim). well, recently while in NYC with her son, she was in an east village shop and came across […]
it’s been one of those days when i had to settle for accomplishing things in pieces. you know the kind—eventually, at some point, it all pulls together but for most of the day you are making small events happen with no final product. but hey, i’ll take parts—they do eventually become something, right? i knew […]
this was just one of those schu-we-e-et weekends that had everything—i got lots done, we had good meals and good company to go with, we worked hard and took “naps”, and rode bikes . . . man, i hate when it ends but it makes getting back to the work week seem a little easier. […]
as with every saturday lately, the morning was spent out in the garden working, rearranging, watering and dealing with the bugs (more on that later). i thinned the swiss chard again, taking out about half, now that it is a good 9–12 inches high. the rest can get even bigger i hope. success is sweet; […]