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Member since: Jan 10 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 36 | Organic gardener
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15 Sep 2011Cardinal Feather Blooming, Mealy Blue Sage Blooming, Zexmenia Blooming, Prairie Tea Blooming, and Broom Sna...
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Cloudy 34°C / 94°FFinding anything blooming today was like a treasure hunt. But I found some things, mostly in the unbearable heat of the driveway rock garden. 1. All dressed up and no place to go: a male Cardinal Feather which normally blooms in April. Sadly, none of its female counterparts were in bloom. (They h...
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13 Sep 2011
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Where am I, and why am I in this handbasket?
Sunny 38°C / 101°F
Here we go again—this evening there’s a fire about 40 miles to the west of us, and a couple of small ones about 50 miles to the south. I’m so exhausted, but maybe tomorrow I should review and practice evacuation plans.
The fire in my hometown is 85% contained. I finally received...
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11 Sep 2011
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Carolina Snailseed, fires, and introducing Barton Brabanter
Chicken Coop Two garden , Chicken Coop One garden , Carolina Snailseed Fruiting, and Creek gardenCloudy 36°C / 97°FThanks for everyone’s concerns about the Texas wildfires. As you recall, we were surrounded by them in April and May. The Bastrop fire is about 4 hours east of us. It has decimated one of my favorite state parks. Also 18,000 acres of my hometown are burning, the flames now only a mile from ...
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02 Sep 2011Chicken Coop One garden , Red Bird of Paradise Blooming, and Entrance garden
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Cloudy 37°C / 99°FThe past few days the temperature has dropped from 106-109 degrees to 99-101 giving a little relief. It’s pretty sad when 100 degrees feels like fall. Last Sunday a small, dark cloud moved over us. I had an idea. You call yourself a cloud? I bet you are too wimpy to even wet the ground! Far...
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15 Aug 2011Esperanza Blooming, Navajo Tea Blooming, Drummond's Clematis Blooming, Antelope Horns Blooming, and Crepe M...
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Sunny 37°C / 99°FWe had an unexpected inch of rain on Friday, and suddenly many flowers have pushed forth blooms. I guess they figured it was now or never. 1. This is only the second time the Dwarf Crape Myrtle that came with the house has bloomed in a decade. I think the lack of leaves on the drought stricken tr...
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06 Aug 2011
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Cleaning out the well and Elvis is daddy
Chicken Coop Two gardenSunny 38°C / 101°F
Pretty much everything we planted in our decade here is dead, and then some. The trees look a lot worse than when I left on my trip. One of our largest Mulberry trees has cracked down the middle and has sprouted leaves on its trunk. I am amazed by the tenacity of all living things trying to hang ...
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03 Aug 2011
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Selective breeding believed to be causing fruits and veggies to be less nutritional
Check out this brief article with an interactive infographic. If you click on the individual nutrients it will show you how much has been lost since 1950. The study doesn’t touch on soil depletion and reliance on chemical fertilizers which I feel are also at fault. http://www.grist.org/food...Sunny 38°C / 101°F -
01 Aug 2011
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Farewell waterfalls, back to the inferno
Sunny 37°C / 99°F
After a couple of vet recommended baking soda drenches Finley is all better now—thank you for sending him healing thoughts! Three new peeps have hatched.
Unfortunately, the man who was supposed to come and clean out our well over the weekend didn’t show up. Farmer Rick went to his pla...
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25 Jul 2011
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21°C / 70°F
There’s the sweet sound of a downpour outside in this temperate rainforest cabin where I’m staying. I am experiencing rain every day and it feels great! I even got to operate my new umbrella—it’s been so long I almost needed a user’s manual.
I’m enjoying the gr...
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22 Jul 2011
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Chasing rain: a postcard from the road
34°C / 94°FI’ve seen it every day since I hit the road. This was a particularly beautiful rain storm I saw in New Orleans early this morning. I had to buy an umbrella, because it didn’t occur to me to pack one. Hope all is well in Folia Land. I’ll catch up with you soon!
