All the kiddos pitched in with the garden last year, but it was all new to Lulu and she loved it. She helped plant potatoes and onions. She walked through (and sometimes on) the rows to see what was popping up. She helped dig potatoes and pick the peppers and tomatoes. Once we established that […]

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Here’s my last comment on the new Google Map image of our place… I promise…. at least for now. In addition to the wagon, I noticed that Google’s images were clear enough that I could pick out every plant in the garden. Yeah, I know it doesn’t look like much in that context, so let […]

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Despite the remaining Christmas leftovers, a sure sign spring can’t be too far off is the arrival of the seed catalogs. I was flipping through one that arrived over the Christmas break and it got the kiddos talking about trying to grow pumpkins again this year. After last year’s drought, there’s a little bit of […]

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It’s been a while since the last update on the kiddos’ pumpkin patch. Unfortunately, with Pip’s craving for squash, the dry weather, and the lack of attention, there isn’t much to show for all the kiddo’s hard work earlier this year. I had quickly walked through the patch a time or two over the past […]

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We could have picked a better year for the kiddos to have started out with a pumpkin patch. With the lack of rain and high temps there’s been a few days when things weren’t looking so good – it’s hard to stay excited about a wilted vine day after day. There’s only so much watering […]

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Back in May I posted a picture of a wild berry bloom. I had found a few berry plants behind the old machine shed in a cluster of weeds. I was hoping for a couple bowls full of berries to confirm that I had found a patch of blackberries. I thought the addition to the […]

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Now that the potatoes are out of the garden for the year, I thought I’d take a quick look back at the season.

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Earlier this week I decided it was time to dig the potatoes. Actually, it wasn’t much of a decision. We had finished super early that evening thanks to a pan of lasagna my sister-in-law dropped off and Sissy was off working with her steer for the fair with my brother. (More on that to come.) […]

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Early this spring my parents offered us some red raspberry shoots. They have a well established patch and in the early spring new shoots like to spread into their garden. So, one evening after work I stopped by to clean their garden of shoots – I ended up taking home seventy 8 – 10″ shoots […]

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LuLu and I were playing in the yard the other night when LuLu spotted the neighbor cutting hay. She would point and announce “I see it!” each time she would see the cab and smoke stack of the tractor over the top of the corn between us and the hay field. It lasted for about […]

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