Vacation
Just a quick post to say that I’m going to be away for 5 days or so. We’re off for a couple of days of camping, and then on to my in-laws’ again for their 40th anniversary bash.If you’re looking for more to read, why …
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Garden Pests and Blueberry Pie
Have I mentioned lately how much I’d like to get out of the city? Vancouver is extremely safe as cities go, but as I sit here typing, there is a plain clothes police officer sitting in my tomato patch doing surveillance on (I’m assuming) one …
We(s)t Coast?
I’m knackered tonight, so I’ll keep this brief. Garden Miscellany:I spotted this lovely duo of nasturtiums and spiderwort in the garden today and thought the combination was striking. Only in a coastal garden would you find this lurking in the shadows! I use seaweed collected …
We’re Jammin’
I recently finished reading Well Preserved: A Jam Making Hymnal (on Tammie’s recommendation). It’s a lovely book, and I’ve been itching to try out some new recipes ever since. Having just picked up some gorgeous peaches and blueberries at the market on the weekend, I …
Peachy Pancakes
I absolutely love peaches and I firmly believe that the only way to eat them is fresh, standing over the sink, with the juice dripping off your elbows. And while I often can’t resist their charms long enough to turn them into anything else, I …
Things I Love – A Good Night’s Sleep
So can anyone guess what this stuff is? Is it my latest granola recipe? An experimental garden mulch? A failed attempt at flower drying?They’re actually my favorite thing to sleep on – buckwheat hulls! What you’re looking at is what’s inside the pillow that I …
The tomatoes are ripening!!
Okay, so it would seem that my whining about having a bumper crop of tomatoes that were never going to ripen was a little premature. We’ve had a few good days of sunshine and things seem to be coming along nicely! The Siletz and Romas …
Final Summer Blooms
Things seem to be coming to a close in my beds these days, with many of the flowers looking spent and brown. Here are some that are still looking good. A newly opened yellow rose. A William Shakespeare rose. This one is spectacular in person …
Urban Wildlife
Today’s installment is the long overdue post about the two as yet unmentioned members of our family – the cats. Baxter (below) is our sweet old boy. We adopted him from the SPCA when he was about 4 (he’s 10 now). There was a kitten …