Category: garden
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Gleanings
It seems by what my culture is telling me that we are reaching the end of summer. My library science classes start up again in a couple weeks, and the slight decrease in temperature each night reminds me that fall (my favorite season!) is approaching. Our sunflowers are still green, but gradually opening their heads…
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coming to fruition
The saga of the parking parameters continues, as today there were two huge trash cans in front of the neighbor’s house with “No Parking” signs taped to them. Trevor started plotting how he was going to parallel park between them, but then someone drove up in an RV and they moved the trash cans aside…
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Votes are in, yarn is getting spun
After much deliberation and helpful input from you good people, we have settled on a HommeSpun Yarns as Trevor’s business name. Since we’ve returned from Washington he’s been putting in more and more hours at the wheel, producing yarn at the rate of about three skeins every two days. As the weather has been ever…
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Two Kinds of Weeding, Many Kinds of Weeds
We returned from vacation to find many plants thriving in our garden, including some that we actually planted ourselves! Our dear friend Anne babysat the garden for us while we were gone, something she knows much more about than we do. Yesterday we spent a joyful, drizzly afternoon weeding, which I’ve discovered is one of…
Angie Gustafson 