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Every year about this time, the Monarch caterpillars move in and nibble on my dill and do a bit of damage to my parsley. This year, they came in with a vengeance and totally wiped out all the dill and all the parsley. Thank goodness they weren’t interested in the basil. There were a LOT...

There’s no reason I’m sharing this info. I don’t anticipate any problems. Please don’t read more into this than what I’m actually writing but . . probably back in about 2008, we were living in Missouri and shopping often at a small Amish grocery about 30 miles from where we lived. One day I was...

This morning I was looking for something on the blog and came across this picture of my Texas garden. Briefly I missed having such a large garden but then I remembered how much time I spent in the garden to keep it weeded, watered and bugs under control. There’s truly a time and season for...

There’s a tomato in the garden that has a scary face! I actually find myself kinda sneaking by it without looking at it. Will we eat it? No! Doesn’t that look like an angry tomato? It’s called “cat facing” and Garden Betty has some info about it – why it happens here; what we can...

There were French doors going out of the sewing room onto the back patio. The former owners of this house, who built it in 2003, had changed the French doors once, maybe in about 2018. I’ll never understand why people build houses with doors with no porch covering them. I know . . most houses...

It’s summer. It’s HOT. It’s dry! Need I say more? Add in that the gardener has a bad knee and we’re lucky to be getting anything. Let’s not forget the hail storm in at the very end of April that damaged a lot of the garden. One of the insurance adjusters told us that there...

You may remember that I have two raised beds that will not stop growing volunteer potatoes. For the last three years, potatoes have popped up in these two beds. In the past I’ve tried to pull them out. This year, I just left them and they pretty much took over two of my 4 x...

The new garage fridge should be delivered tomorrow. The appliance store charges $50 to get rid of the old one. Vince was happy to spend that $50 the day we bought the new fridge, which was several months ago. Now that it’s time to actually pay, he isn’t so happy about it. At first he...

Today was my day to drive to Nevada to stitch with a friend. I love Wednesdays! Last night she and I were messaging on FB and she commented that it seemed like longer than a week ago that we were together. I had already thought the same thing. If we lived a bit closer, we’d...

We had gone to Walmart the other today to buy more bell peppers plants. I use so many of red bell peppers and they’re so expensive to buy, I figured I’d plant more peppers. I bought some red and some yellow pepper plants, though I think, in the end, if I leave green peppers on...

For a couple of years, we grew tomatoes in some self water setup with 5 gallon buckets. He had installed cattle panels with buckets on both sides and I could tie the tomatoes up to the wires. We’ve changed our plans and now I grow tomatoes in mineral tubs (from a friend who has cows)....

The new kitchen fridge will be delivered tomorrow! They called this morning and said “Your fridge is in and we can deliver it tomorrow!” We haven’t had a working fridge in the kitchen since the first week of February – that’s 4-1/2 months! What I’ve missed most is ice! We bought one of those countertop...

If you’re tenderhearted and an animal lover, you may not want to read this post. I’ll just chat here for a minute so no one sees what they don’t want to see. There are no gross pictures. This spring has been so blasted wet! It rains EVERY day. I grew up and spent half my...

One of today’s comments was something like “What are you going to talk about now that the fridge issue is resolved?” I figure since I’ve been blogging for 20+ years, I’ll come up with something but, little did I know that another fridge would go out! Chad said “What is it with y’all and refrigerators?”...

This morning at 5 a.m. I gave Oscar his tranquilizer that he takes before going to the vet. Sometimes it apparently works better than other times. Today he was probably no worse than an average dog who doesn’t like going to the vet. The vet came in, checked out whatever he needed to check out,...

It’s about time to say goodbye to the beautiful, tasty lettuce. Yes, lettuce I pick and eat the same day tasted quite different from most of the lettuce I’ve bought in the grocery store. Here’s a funny Vince story. Not complaining . . it’s his lack of attention to what I do that keeps me...

Please don’t feel bad for me – we’re fine with the loaner fridge. I’m just sharing this info so anyone who’s looking at buying a new fridge can know what “customer service” is like for some brands. Even though we’ve had this fridge for three years, the compressor has a five year warranty and we...

We’re getting towards the end of all the “investigation” and “getting ready” for the hail damage to be repaired here. It hasn’t been bad so far. I’m sure there are plenty of folks who have had issues with State Farm; our journey hasn’t ended yet but they’ve all been so nice, so helpful and no...

This refrigerator story is getting to be comical. I’m so ready just to put it out with a “Please Take” sign and go buy another one . . even though this one is under warranty and should be fixed by someone or replaced but I’m beginning to believe it’s never going to be fixed or...

This year I’m growing the tomatoes in mineral tubs and I kept thinking of a good way to stake them keep them safe. Chad has a friend who grows his garden in mineral tubs and he uses cattle panels to stake his tomatoes. He puts a post in the ground every 8 or 10′, however...