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This Does Not Give Me a Warm Feeling..

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:29:09 +0000

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Dang, It’s Gonna Be Cold.

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:28:02 +0000

Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog This was from December 4, the neighbor girls made a very cute little snowman. It’s going to be cold enough that, were he still around, he’d be good for almost 2 days, instead of the 8 hours he was with us in December. I hate the cold.

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ~ December

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:46:08 +0000

Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog Find more blogger’s blossoms at Carol’s place. She’s the inventor of Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. Mini Roses enjoy the view from my sunny window. Truth be told I don’t care for my house all that much. It’s old and desperately in need of updating. But, it has this bright, sunny [...]

Almost Wordless Wednesday - December 16, 2009

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:44:48 +0000

Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog Today I will be, hopefully, returning from an expedition to Nepal. I say ‘expedition’ because that is the correct term for a trip of this type. I am hoping to have pictures of interesting people, plants and landscapes and I offer this as an explanation for my recent lack of [...]

Jobs and Blessings

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:52:03 +0000

Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog No, I’m not looking for a new job. In fact, I emailed my good boss the day I was coming home and told him that I hoped he could fit me in somewhere on the schedule, and before I got halfway between Victoria and Houston, he was calling my cell [...]

Coming Home

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:53:23 +0000

Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog I didn’t want to post this too soon, as we’ve been told we’re going home before, and it didn’t happen.. but. I think we’re going home tomorrow. Just in time for me to put the frost covers on my plants. sigh.

Wordless Wednesday-December 2, 2009

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:49:52 +0000

Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog

Maniacal Ovens and Spritz Cookies

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:33:22 +0000

Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog If you bake one cookie this holiday season, make it a Spritz Spritz, the yummiest of all the buttery little morsels, are made with a cookie press. If you’re a perfectionist, that should give ya fits. It’s not so bad for me because we generally eat all the dough before the oven [...]

While I Was Napping…

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:25:34 +0000

Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog I hope you’re not weary of my indoor roses. It’s all I’ve got growing right now! I suppose this was bound to happen at some point. Not so much an ‘if’ as a ‘when.’ As in… when will I get socked with that nasty flu? The happy ‘clutter’ in my kitchen [...]

Tuna Haters To Die For Tuna Marinade

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:43:26 +0000

Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog Hazel’s Zinnias On Tuesdays, we round up the usual suspects and cook a special dinner. It’s not easy. There’s the 2 teenagers who prefer every meal be mac ‘n cheese. There’s a happy little carnivore who thinks bacon in mac ‘n cheese might be dee-lish. And, then there’s the pescatarians. Fish [...]

The beginning or the ‘End of the Line’? Wordless Wednesday - 11-11-09

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:06:58 +0000

Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog Common milkweed - Asclepias syriaca

Fix’er Up…

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11:47 +0000

Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog My sister is still working on getting her new house in a better condition. It’s a solid house, but needed a lot of work, after having been neglected for the past 10 to 15 years. It was amazing how many of the original fixtures were still in the house. I think [...]

Dear Santa

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:39 +0000

Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog Dear Santa, Knowing that you are going to have a lot of demands on your hands for Christmas things this year, I’ll try to make my requests simple and few. Okay.. at least…not complicated and not very many. I’ll work on it! First of all, I don’t want you to spend too much money [...]

Garlic - Allium sativuum

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:08:26 +0000

Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog Fall may be the end of the growth cycle for most of the plants in the garden but it is just the beginning for garlic. That is one of the reasons why I have planted it in the past and again this fall. There is the reward of plunging one’s [...]

XXL Micro Minis!

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:05:18 +0000

Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog These great, big photos celebrate the tiniest flowers blooming in my sunny window: That sweet little bud I discovered on Saturday has blossomed into a perfect micro-mini rose. Shown here, much bigger than life, she’s about the size of a quarter. I was so very excited about my baby pinks that [...]