Kerry’s Garden

So two years ago I started this oven project. I had high hopes of finishing it that year but starting grad school left me with little free time and the weather soon turned to insure it wasn’t happening in 09. 2010 started out great, I was ready to get back into the mud once the [...]

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A couple of days ago I was watering the potted items on the back patio. I noticed a young mantid on the thyme trying to escape the shower. I decided to move her to a safer place with some critters for her lunch. I walked around the garden and honestly could not find anything with [...]

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Yesterday morning we hit the ‘world’s longest yard sale’ as we do every year. Aside from the odd rude individual that sees nothing wrong with parking their UHaul to block in several cars… it was a great time. I found an old Wagner Ware cast iron Drip Drop Roaster with the trivet included. I paid [...]

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Walking in the yard a while back I noticed this crooked bamboo shoot coming up. How very strange…

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My SIL was in a nearby town during one of her many business trips. We had talked previously about her picking up a cherry tomato plant on one of her visits so I had saved one of the basket tomato cups back ‘just in case’. It was a little larger than I had anticipated it [...]

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Knee deep in snow and there is still the promise of life. Did you ever stop to think of the amazing fact that a few key ingredients, seed, fertile soil, moisture, light and the correct temperature left to their own devices will produce such beauty? Sometimes, when the cold of winter gets to me and [...]

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