Sweet Tea Reads

Once Christmas is over, I am ready for winter to be over.   After the Christmas lights and decorations are (mostly) put away, it’s just cold...

Since I haven’t blogged in quite a while, I thought a Thursday 13 would be a good way to start back. 1.     Since a cat picture is always ...

I’m hoping to have a fairly large garden this year.   We’re not past our last frost date yet, so, for outside, I’m only starting seeds tha...

We were able to pick blackberries from our own backyard over the weekend.  We planted the bush last year, and were fairly certain that Duke ...

I didn’t mean to go nearly a month without writing a blog post, but that’s just how it goes sometimes.  The rain finally stopped.  We’re s...

I really hope you’re not getting tired of all of the plant related posts and pictures.  I’m justifying them by telling myself that most of y...

I basically took a month off of blogging right after my post about keeping up with blogging in January.  That’s the way it goes, right? It...

The giants, with the little Roma. The garden is coming along nicely. It still surprises me a little bit every year. I plant seeds, and...

I have an ever-evolving relationship with yard work. As a child, I loved raking leaves. I think this was due in large part to my dad’s gen...

Two weeks ago we made our first trip of the season to the specialty garden store. We went with Nick’s grandparents (a.k.a. The Grands or Gr...

So I may be the worst blogger ever.  My deepest apologies.  All I have to say for myself is that the summer just got away from me.  I can’t...

We planted a vegetable garden for the first time this year.  It’s fairly small because I wasn’t sure how it would do, or how much we’d be a...

We are getting drenched here in our little piece of the world.  It has been raining off and on (more on than off) since Thursday night, and...

To say that gardening has never been my forte is a massive piece of understatement; I’ve hated it for most of my life, and have gone to grea...