Mike, scent is my holy grail. I think my "smeller" may not work as well as it did. I had to get very close to the David Austins, to appreciate...
Today I started cleaning up the sticks and branches from the apple tree that I removed. I also removed two persimmon trees. I wanted to like...
Around here, while there were people here for 15,000 years or so, the Missoula floods would have washed away anything older than about 13,000...
My best performers are Akane, Jonathan, the one you call Moonlight (I think), Gravenstein, Liberty, and Cosmic Crisp. I'm keeping those, and...
Sjoerd, that's a very interesting part of living there! I grew up near the Mississippi river. There were levees to narrow the river and reduce...
Rain, wash away my sorrow [MEDIA]
It's foggy here. I might do more winter work - cleaning up, mostly - later. The deer don't like that I bring Rufus out with me. So here they...
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I've thought many times about getting a metal detector. What holds me back is, I really don 't expect to find anything, and I don't know the...
Today I cut down the Jonagold apple tree. It's 26 years old, one of my oldest. It's had, maybe, three productive years in that time. Jonagold...
Warm love [MEDIA] [MEDIA]
Treefrogs often inhabit my rainwater tanks. I don't know how they get in there. I leave them be. In the summer, as the tanks dry out, I move...
I looked those up. Beautiful roses, Mike!
Today I pruned the two container roses. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Then I went to work on the 25 year old Liberty apple tree. It was meant to be a...
one, two, buckle my shoe
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Thanks for the heartwarming story Sjoerd! Yesterday I read the story of Valerie the dachshund, stranded on an island on the other end of the...
At least it's the right time, once a day!
This was my most favorite ever "clock calculator computer handheld" Palm pilot from the 1990s. I really loved the handwriting recognition system...
It's a challenge for me. My emitters last one to two years. Iron deposits rather than lime. I have two filters before water gies into the...
