by Daisy | Aug 24, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
It sounds very Renaissance Fair, doesn’t it? Anything with the word “wort” in it does, I think. I had to look up the word, in fact, for this post, hoping it had a bizarre, archaic meaning, but really it only means herbaceous (non-woody) plant. ...
by Daisy | Aug 18, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
I grew my first tabasco pepper plant last year and made my own tabasco sauce. It was An Experience. I loved the sauce, though, (on the second try) and grew another plant this year. Boy howdy it is a happy plant. Huge. If I had two of them I could go into commercial...
by Daisy | Aug 11, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
How many of you read the post title and thought: “Ah, she’s getting into dyeing plants now.” If you did, you have now officially earned your Wackadoodle Homesteading/Fiber Arts Certification (WHAC). Congratulations. I think. If you just thought I was...
by Daisy | Aug 6, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
Huh? Spil what? It’s a real thing. I’ve got some growing in my vegetable garden, right at one end of the pepper patch, not to confuse you–it’s not in the capsicum family. It’s its own thing, a medicinal herb I selected because the seed...
by Ivory Soap | Aug 4, 2010 | Fencepost, Flops
Here’s a little bedtime story for you lovely readers: Once upon a time, a beautiful princess named Ivory got a wild hair to put in her own laminate floors. (After all Princess TL did it ten years ago, so how hard could it be?) She borrowed a chop saw and...
by Ivory Soap | Jul 28, 2010 | Fencepost, Flops
Good news! I got my window fixed. See that bottom right pane? It was busted out with a plastic mini-rocket. Good thing I called my handyman to replace it, huh? It would have looked SO TACKY otherwise. Unfortunately, less than a month after it was repaired, my...
