July 28, 2009

Wow, where has July gone? Sorry I haven’t posted, but it’s been just plain too hot to garden much. The later part of my vacation was spent on the garage, helping a friend move and playing at the pool with the kids. Alas, nowhere in there did I mention gardening. Well, that’s not quite true, I did find a use for the mostly cleared bed #1. Yeah, I know, I’m late for fall planting, but I think I’ll be ok. I planted tons of carrots as they’re the best after a frost when the starches turn

2 year anniversary contest winners!

Wow! I received 231 contest entries: 165 via comments, and 66 via subscriptions with the secret phrase. Thanks to everyone that entered, and a very special thank you for all of the kind comments you left. They met a great deal to me. Now, jumping right to it… The Winners! Winners were selected by placing everyone’s entries into a spreadsheet and using randomizer.org to generate a set of 8 random numbers for the 8 prize winners. Those numbers were matched to the rows in the spreadshee

July 13, 2009

Wow, how the weather can change here in Seattle. My father used to say if you don’t like the weather here, wait 15 minutes, it will change. It hasn’t been that bad, but following a 90 degree Saturday, we’ve had two days of 60 degree overcast weather. It even rained, though that was welcome news to my garden. Everything but the SWCs, which I still need to water. The funny thing is tomorrow the weather is suppose to change back to hot. Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

The Education Begins

Wow - it has certainly been a while since I wrote a new post here! I just wanted to let everyone know I’m still alive and well, and that I’ve simply been spending all my time over at Red Worm Composting . I am planning to get things rolling again here, but I know talk is cheap (especially when I’m the one talking - haha) so let’s just start with a new post and see where that takes us! Last year I wrote a post about how much of a lousy gardener I am . While I’ve certainly dabbled in ‘growing

6 Ways To Not Be A Holier-Than-Thou Traveler

Wow, you know so much about everything! Save it for the book. Photo: Kyle May Alright, you’ve been to 220 countries. You’ve ridden in the front seat of a speeding Myanmar junta’s jeep, jumped into and splashed around the Citarum river, and kissed a woman (and a man) in Antarctica . Wait, there’s only like 195 countries . Point is, you think highly of your well-traveled self. And although the Citarum river swim may be a slight stretch of the truth, you’ve had many crazy and a