by Daisy | Nov 25, 2014 | Household, Simple & Frugal
Every year I get more and more averse to buying cheap, imported stuff; stuff that breaks, gets tossed aside the moment the newness wears off and becomes little more than something I can’t wait to discard so I don’t have to keep picking it up so I can...
by Daisy | Nov 9, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
Much of the garden writing I do includes a whine or two about how little sun I have in my yard because of all the huge trees. As our town’s favorite son was often heard to sing, a little less conversation, a little more action, please. (Now that’s a chain...
by Daisy | Oct 23, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
Back in 2008, or maybe 2007, we really can’t remember, Deanna and I had a phone conversation that was the jumping off point for this website. As I recall, we took the common blogger recommendation to stockpile a few posts before we went “live” to...
by Daisy | Oct 5, 2014 | Drama, Fencepost
Of all the typical calamities that befall strawberry beds: birds, squirrels, slugs, drought (and I’ve had all of those), it was unexpected to say the least when an electrical transformer exploded over mine and doused it with dielectric fluid just as the...
by Daisy | Sep 25, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
There they sat, six or eight of them in a small bowl, wrinkled, bruised and sad. Unusable. “Chickens?” my husband asked, pointing at them. A cloud of fruit flies arose at the disturbance. I sighed heavily, a sense of failure coming over me....
