Time to make Lemonade. We went to bed last night shortly after an unidentified thump in the midst of a hurricanesque Nor’Easter. This morning we awoke to find one of our major oak trees more horizontal than vertical. Actually, totally horizontal, just pushed over by the wind. Amazingly, aside from the loss of the tree [...]
It is springtime and a young man’s fancy turns, of course, to lawn care! Well, not so much, me not so much anyway. In springtime, I start to think about how to eliminate lawn care. I frankly hate our lawn and hate the 60 or so Briggs & Stratton engines that swarm over the yard [...]
Well, we’re finally seeing some sun here in soggy New Jersey, USA, so I thought I’d do a little post on the upside of 13 out of the last 14 days of rain. Less than three weeks ago – I know, I know, way late – I planted a little vegetable garden and added annuals [...]
A few years ago, on a whim, I bought this moth orchid. I’ve always loved orchids, and I thought, why not? This plant, less than half the size it is now, was sitting on a rack in a warehouse store, a little beaten up, flowers drooping. It was reduced, and reduced, and reduced – ignored. [...]