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if you are in a more fire prone area keeping it cut shorter during the dry season may be important. here i don't ever water the lawn itself on purpose, but i do use a part of the lawn to rinse out buckets or garden tools that have too much mud stuck on them. this means that during the dry...

... different varieties/types of garlic are going to be different... the garlic i grow here doesn't care at all about how cold it gets and it will grow even if i leave it sitting here in my room (which doesn't usually get below 55F at all) right now i have several hundred bulbules sprouting...

let the ground get warm enough and the beans sprout before mulching...

i don't have time at the moment to pull that up, but the scarf around the neck kinda gives it away doesn't it? or at least i'm guessing... will have to check it out later.

this morning one of my tasks was to get four large bags of chocolate cookies (animal crackers) ground up into crumbs so Mom could turn them into crusts for some baked goodies she's making today. we'll put the crumbs she doesn't use up today into well sealed jars for the next time she wants to...

wow, that looks fabulous and in our favorite colors too. :)

i like that it is a picture i've not seen before. :)

looks like the drought map agrees with you. we had a pretty good rain here last night so i think we're in good shape for now. drought map says 3rd wettest March on record (since 1895)

sometimes life is a booger, but that doesn't mean you stick your fingers in your nose to find out...

coffee magic

both of my parents barely made it through high school. Mom is definitely dyslexic as i am too, my thinking and writing is often backwards. some times when i'm typing i have to write words several times before i get them write. if i'm having a bad morning typing i'll give up until later. i...

wisdom is doing something instead of writing it on the TODO list.

shrubs of what kind and how were they packed? generally plants can be somewhat hardy as long as they don't dry out completely, cook or freeze, but it would help to know what kind of plant, etc. follow directions when they arrive and see what happens. they probably have a website or a phone...

i love him because he has a proper relationship with lasagna and naps...

north garden did get partially weeded and scraped. considering it has been ignored for several months it is not too bad but there is a huge number of what looks like to me like clover sprouts coming up. the garden has had various patches of clover in it before so this wouldn't be a surprise...