‘Tis the season to be jolly… and covered in sawdust. Remember how we were trying to sell our house, and I revealed our house’s dirty little secret? Well, we’re fixing that. Less that two weeks before Christmas. (See that picture above? That’s my...
Little House In The Suburbs
Cold weather is creeping in… I can feel it in the mornings. My toes are cold when I creep down the stairs in search of my kettle. I need my tea first thing in the morning. And what’s better with a cup of tea in the morning than a home-baked muffin? If you follow me […]
She followed me out to our little patch of garden. I can’t go outside without her filling my shadow. “Can I look for cucumbers? Can I pick one, mom?” She found five. FIVE. She excitedly gathered them into her arms while my jaw dropped. I grew that. WE grew that!...
I have to make a confession. It’s not something that most people would own up to. I love garden gnomes! There… I said it. There is a short story by Frank Jones called “Wish You Were Here”. In it, a woman receives postcards from the garden gnome that...
The evolution of our backyard has been dirty and seemingly endless work. We moved into our house in the Fall of 2006. We have a backyard that we are finally satisfied with just this year: almost 7 years since we first held the keys to this house. Of course, prior to the thuds and thwacks […]
May Long weekend came (in Canada, it’s Victoria Day that we celebrate) and brought us a deadline that I had been anxiously awaiting: it was transplanting time! My plant babies had been living under their (possibly dangerous) lights in our laundry room for quite some time, and I was...
I have a neighbour who is extremely passionate about gardening. She and her husband devote hours and hours to time working in the dirt. There is a small man-made stream that winds its way through their yard, ending at a large koi pond. There is a bridge. A path. A multitude of little gnomes and...
Our backyard has been a never-ending project since the day we moved into our house. Really, it’s a whole other post – the Suburble Family Landscaping Saga – but let’s just say that it involves things like deck supports that collapse during family dinners...
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