I don’t love The Yankees. My heart was ripped out a couple of week ago. I’m not referring to the ER post. I’m referring to game 4 of the NLCS. We (The Dodgers) were so close. I’ve been wanting to do a baseball post since April. We even did this Baseball Promo (shown above) piece [...]
Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category
Baseball and Tomatoes and the Big Apple
Posted in Celebrations, Day to day maintance, Gardening, Lifes Mysteries, tagged baseball, baseball cards, Brooks Robinson, bull pen, clete maris, earl Weaver, joe pepitone, Memorial stadium. Pat Santarone. heirloom tomato, mickey mantle, Pittsburgh Pirates, roger maris, tomatoes, world series, yankees. dodgers on 5 November,2009 | 1 Comment »
Remains of Summer
Posted in Gardening, Lifes Mysteries, tagged Elsa Beskow, gardens, japanese eggplants, kudzu, peppers, squash, summer, tomatoes on 14 September,2009 | 1 Comment »
When you leave your garden for 6 weeks some things die and some things flourish. The sprinklers are on a timer but still, I’m out there everyday weeding, pruning and hand watering those hard to get areas. There’s a great book by Elsa Beskow called Christopher’s Harvest Time where a boy is miniaturized and taken [...]
Happy Summer From Ted & Debbie Revisited
Posted in Gardening, The Great Outdoor, tagged sunflowers, Ted & Debbie, U.S.P.S on 18 August,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last summer, just a few days before we left for Kauai,we took it upon ourselves to mail out 500 packets of “Happy Summer” sunflowers seeds.
I don’t know how may of the 500 recipients actually planted their seeds,(I don’t even really know how many received them. While we were on vacation we got a phone call [...]
Footprints And Symbols
Posted in Day to day maintance, Gardening, Lifes Mysteries, tagged cleaning, footprints, Japanese gardens, kauai, stepping stones, vacations on 27 July,2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are rushing around, tying up loose ends, getting out of California to slowly make our yearly trek to Kauai. I say trek symbolically because anytime you take 5 kids anywhere it becomes eventful. This year is a bit different, we are renting our house out to total strangers so we need to leave our [...]
Webs and Strings
Posted in Day to day maintance, Gardening, Lifes Mysteries, tagged hourglass. black widow. lyre, mcabes guitar shop on 16 July,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes life is connected by a thread seemingly random and chaotic. But sometimes things fall into place with a strangeness which balances on perfection. Take yesterday, I went to McCabes Guitar Shop to buy a new string for my lyre. In the shop was a big hourglass.
After my purchase I noticed a Black Widow spider [...]
Good Morning Sunshine
Posted in Day to day maintance, Gardening, Uncategorized, tagged bob's donuts, espresso, heath ceramics, la pavoni, sunflowers on 11 July,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Four Little Piggies
Posted in Day to day maintance, Food, Gardening, Recipe on 15 June,2009 | 1 Comment »
Summer is in full swing. The kids are fighting while playing Monopoly. Theo has been caught cheating red- handed trying to load the dice in order to land on and buy Boardwalk. I never liked Monopoly. I still don’t. What I do like is Pork with a capital “P”. We’ve been buying our pork at [...]
Of This Earth
Posted in Day to day maintance, Gardening, He Said, Lifes Mysteries, tagged dakon radish, Gardening, roots, the alchemist, woodwrking on 26 February,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hopefully it’s not too late for our little ones to see progress in the past. That being said, there is a sprinkling of spring in the air. The wildflowers we planted this winter are starting to flower, it’s lighter when we get up in the morning (except for Debbie who gets up at 5:00am to [...]
Death of Professor Plum
Posted in Gardening, He Said, tagged Clue, dead trees, plum trees, Professor Plum on 29 December,2008 | Leave a Comment »
Was it murder? Was it natural causes? Was it a pest? Was it too much water? Was it root rot? Well, whatever the reason, our plum tree died of unknown causes. After a bountiful harvest of plums in June and July upon returning from Summer holiday in September we found the tree dead. It was [...]
How to choose an Xmas tree
Posted in Celebrations, Gardening, He Said, tagged christams trees, Christmas, home depot, how to pick the perfect Christmas tree, winter spiral on 19 December,2008 | Leave a Comment »
A rainy ,windy morning in the Southland had Debbie and Simon up early morning baking cookies for a kinder pot luck after their winter spiral walk.
After drop off at school Simon and I head Home Depot to get an Christmas tree. It’s never crowded in the Xmas tree lot at Home Depot at 8:30 in [...]
