Stars for days
Gardening is never the same from one year to the next. Climate change, changes in precipitation and horticultural practices all lead to different outcomes. In our yard, this is the year…
Seed starting
Fellow gardeners, it’s almost time to plant! At least it is here in the Pacific Northwest. Well, I hope it is! We have had a frigid spring with snow and…
From the Game Table: Play by post
An occasional post from Robert Interested in role-playing games (RPGs), but having trouble scheduling a several-hour block of time into your regular schedule to play? I recommend that you try…
Heading the call to adventure
We have been playing Call to Adventure. We play this one asynchronously now (learn more about how we incorporated games into our daily schedule), but we had to start playing together at…
Plant sales and birthdays
I have the best birthday in the world because it coincides with so many plant sales. There is nothing I like more than a plant sale or a stroll through…
Fearlessly Different
I just finished the book Fearlessly Different by Seattle native Mickey Rowe. I’ve been trying to read more by Autistic authors, fiction and nonfiction. The Autistic community says “nothing about us without…
When the scraps become the quilt
Robert shared Eula Biss’s book Having and Being Had with me, not as a book recommendation but just to show me the cover. (I did read the book.) The cover art on…
All in on compost
I’ve been attending an excellent gardening webinar series sponsored by Cascade Water Alliance. It’s easy to say yes to six weeks of Saturday webinars when gardening is the topic! I was…
Galvanized buckets for dog cleanup
Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash We have dogs. They poop. No one likes to step in it, so we clean up as they go. We have used this galvanized…
Making a (Back)Splash
Photo by Robert Anderson on Unsplash I think after a week of living in our current home, we decided that the plastic “tin tile”-style backsplash had to go. About four years later we…