"What about the chard?" my sweetie asks. He loves Swiss chard, and he's worried that it will freeze. "Chard is good all ...

 A package came filled with excelsior a few years ago. What to do with excelsior?  I tried to give it to the Swap Program at the landfill, t...

 One of the 5 daily recollections is Everything i cherish will change and vanish. In other words, everything is impermanent. Everything chan...

Very few flowers are blooming in the chill of November. Alyssum and Johnny-jump-ups seem to enjoy the cool weather. The other spots of color...

It snowed a couple of days ago, followed by a killing frost. All the annuals are good and dead now. And the fall garden is beautiful in star...

  When i saw a skeleton at the hardware store, i bought it. It now stands at the corner of my driveway and the road, greeting visitors. The ...

  Fuzzy white fingers of fungus are growing out of a birch log in my wood stack. Aaagh! They're coming to get me! Part of the fun of Hal...