Gee Droopy, I hope that divorce is amicable! About ironing--I have an iron, somewhere around here . . . . Watering plants early, then making more...
A native Texas tree called the Retama is blooming in the corner of our barn lot. We planted it shortly after we moved here, and it has survived...
Cuatro-gatos, as soon as the silk appears, I put a few drops of vegetable oil on the silk, close to the husk. It works great! Mart, our...
Like Sjoerd, we watered--herbs and peppers. Also picked Celebrity and Roma tomatoes, and a few cherry tomatoes. We are in a heat wave, so all the...
There is a program on TV called House Hunters. Prospective home buyers always need more room to entertain, more bedrooms for relatives to stay and...
Green thumb outdoors, and indoors, too! Those look like very happy houseplants. You may want to start looking for adoptive parents since you'll...
To fathers, proudly refusing to ask directions since 1845. Also, Thanks Dad, you did a great job. I turned out awesome!
For the last few days we've had a red bellied woodpecker hanging around the feeder and watering station, and going up and down a nearby tree. So...
Logan, you really have a "touch" for roses. They are superb! The verbena is beautiful too, but roses touch my heart.
Happy Birthday, and I truly wish you many, many more!
My husband was mowing the front lawn, and came in to ask, What is that little pink rose in the front bed?" I was surprised, flabbergasted, and oh,...
Good Friday to you all, especially those of you looking forward to the weekend and being off work. It's 9 a.m. and I have marinara sauce reducing...
Droopy, cucumbers and red onions we have. Goats, no. However, there are a lot of goats in Texas, to the point of some land being "goated out"...
And yet more pumpkin! We were examining the pumpkin shown in the photo and found another on the vine--small, green, but definitely a pumpkin. The...
Clay, birds are very hard to photograph, so you did well. Your daughter is a budding ornithologist--keep encouraging her interest!
[ATTACH] Dust from the Sahara desert is blowing across Texas and contiguous states. This is last night's sunset. Kind of the Sahara to share, but...
Happy Birthday! I hope you can take it easy on your special day, and enjoy it to the hilt.
No, no, no! This is a pie pumpkin, not the overgrown, hollow heart pumpkins for jack 'o lanterns, and definitely not dog food! We won't have a...
We've never had them in the numbers you had, but we've had hummingbirds every day for a few months. We have two or three that come to the feeders...
Well Mart, we aren't going to harvest it just yet. When I'm planning the pie, I'll let you know, and you can come and sample some of our wine...
