Too Many Tomatoes

 Here is an updated view of the garden bed we carved out of the edge of the thicket  last July.  It contains grasses divided from various ar...

 Is it ever too hot to do yard work?  Apparently not.  Remember back in April when we opened up our septic to pump the tank?  Well, this sp...

  A New Septic Sand Filter Baby Snapping Turtle just passing through Initially met him on the garden shed steps... eye to eye. Had to come b...

 We have gotten a a lot of rain from these storms sweeping across the country.  I can't really walk across the back lawn.  The rest of t...

 The hurricane spent twelve hours delivering less than half an inch of gentle rain and today is cool and cloudy and feels like October.  The...

 Timing is everything.  Monday afternoon I set out to transplant all of the myrtle I had set aside in the shade from the recent wilderness r...

As happens with many projects, you get one thing nicely refreshed and suddenly there are satellite projects that need to be addressed.  Ye...

pal·i·sade /ˌpaləˈsād/ noun a fence of wooden  stakes  or iron  railings  fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure or defense. We spent all...