by Daisy | Nov 17, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
Who wouldn’t love to say goodbye to their electric bill (or most of it) and get your electricity from the sun? I think I would, but the high cost, the complexity, the fact that it always seems like the next big breakthrough in solar is just around the corner...
by Daisy | Nov 6, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
. . . I’d have no tomatoes at all. Weird year for tomatoes. We had plenty of spring rain and mild weather so the tomatoes I planted in the garden got off to a good start. Unfortunately, by the time the first few tomatoes started to ripen, drought set in and the...
by Daisy | Sep 23, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
I et a stinkbug yesterday. That’s an exaggeration. I chomped down on a stinkbug by accident and spit it out. The thing is, I wasn’t fazed by this, and for a second I was separating out the bits of stinkbug from the bits of mulberry in my mouth (because...
by Daisy | Sep 15, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
A while back, I decided to try bagging one of the three Asian pears my tree successfully produced this year. I wanted to see if it made any difference in pest damage prevention. Here are the results: This is the unbagged pear: There’s no internal damage, no...
by Daisy | Sep 9, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
I’m getting into the gift-making spirit. My favorite type of gift is homemade, and I love gift baskets, as evidenced by the entire chapter on homemade gift baskets in our book. However, as much as I love those ideas, I like changing them up a bit every year. I...
by Daisy | Aug 28, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
As I looked at today’s harvest of passionfruit, eggs, figs, and (not in the pic), muscadines, I couldn’t help but think about the roundness of it all; four very different things, none of them perfectly spherical, but definitely on the rounded end of...
