by Daisy | Jul 28, 2016 | Fencepost, Reviews
This week’s thoughts turn to early preparation for fall and winter gardening. I know, I know, it seems like we just kissed last winter good-bye and good riddance, and we’ve got a good bit of summer left, but to get a jump on fall gardening it takes some...
by Daisy | Jul 27, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
Of course it’s wrong. It’s misguided. It lacks discipline and demonstrates poor planning, shows impulse control and neglect. I’m letting passionfruit vines take over my yard even though I know it will end badly. This vine is establishing a...
by Daisy | Jul 18, 2016 | Fencepost, Reviews
This is a book I’m ashamed to admit I only recently read. The Unsettling of America was published in 1977, which means I could have read it as a child, again as a teenager, a young adult, and many times throughout my adulthood, and it would have probably changed...
by Daisy | Jun 28, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
If there’s one good thing about weeding, it makes the world slow down. You can’t work on the computer, or your phone. Unless you’re a bluetooth person. Nothing against bluetooth people . . . You can listen to music, but I don’t. Sometimes I...
by Daisy | Jun 26, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
This morning, after a couple of hours of weeding, I was starving so I decided to play one of my favorite games: Breakfast From The Yard. It’s exactly what it sounds like: See how much of my entire breakfast I could harvest out of my suburban yard. Garden...
by Daisy | Jun 22, 2016 | Conversation, Fencepost
Great garden weather and all. But it also means great weed weather. When the phone repairman was here, he briefly considered digging a trench to put in a whole new underground line all the way to the house and looked down a long bed between the back fence and a row of...
