by Daisy | Mar 19, 2014 | Bugs & Critters, Garden
Does a hard winter kill off insect pests? Every time there is a particularly cold winter with a lot of below-freezing temperatures, one comment I hear is from folks hoping at least it will kill off the bad bugs. By the same token, when the winter is especially mild,...
by Daisy | Mar 15, 2014 | Main Dishes, Recipes
Not to complain, but recipe posts are some of the hardest. If you blog, you may understand. Having to stop multiple times in the middle of cooking to arrange and photograph, wiping messy hands for the camera, trying to stir or pour or slice and shoot at the same time...
by Daisy | Mar 9, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
I don’t know if this would have been true of me as a young single, but nowadays all it takes to make my heart go pitter patter is to say the words compost + sifter. Actually, just compost will do. Especially finished compost. Smelling salts, please, and a fan....
by Daisy | Mar 3, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
I took advantage of the snow day here to sleep in. When I finally peered out of the window around 9 o’clock, I noticed there were no chickens pecking around the chicken run. We’ve had snow before, several times in fact, and the chickens didn’t seem...
by Daisy | Mar 1, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
When I was growing up in the country we had pit bull dogs. They were good dogs and they loved to play tug o’ war. I would get a stout piece of rope with a knot on each end and the pup would take one knot and I’d take the other and he would nearly pull my...
