I made some blocks for an Irish Chain / Star quilt. Not sure how will it will go together, but it's a start. The blue and white are for the...
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Beautiful peaceful scene. May the lottie rest and dream of warmer days.
Thanks Frank! It's working fine again!
There was a lull in rain, and afternoon temp was OK, so I took advantage and cut down five more fruit trees. A couple were actually rootstocks...
Ouch!
Back in the 1980s, before the Normans invaded England, I worked for a few years for a chemical company that was making feed additives for dairy...
Deep Purple never really appealed to me.
Here is the veteran's quilt that I started in September. It's about 65" wide by 75" long. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I'm pretty happy with this one.
That's true about the phone memory being full of dog photos. Mine is too ;) Also about taking photos of instructions to enlarge them. I think...
Went to Portland to my specialist doctor. That went well. Lots of traffic slow down. The bottleneck is the century-old Interstate Bridge...
My helper burnt both piles of brush from winter pruning. Plus the branches and trunks from last week's fruit tree removals. When it's a bit...
Despite earlier predictions that the winter's lows here would be a few days down to 27F or 28F, the past few days have been down to 25F. Not too...
@Clay_22 nice seed varieties! I like Seeds n Such too. Their seeds always seem to perform for me. The rudbeckia and echinacea look especially...
@Pacnorwest you are right about all of that. I try to look at it as the continued, guided, evolution of my garden. The fruit trees were always...
Today was the Washington Chain Saw Massacre. I removed seven fruit trees from the front of the property. I have duplicates of two, as...
I agree it's curious. Maybe they are seed grown and there was a cross, as you suggest.
Made my second effort of tamales. This time the filling was sautéed mushrooms, onions, chilis, with some cumin, and I mixed in some added...
Thanks @Sjoerd, I've also observed that various types of bees - honeybees, bumblebees, tiny native bees - enjoy their nectar and pollen, too....
I finished cleaning up the ever-bearing Ozark Beauty strawberry boxes. I cut off the dead leaves, removed old mulch, and covered the soil with a...
