From Winter to Summer in One Week Flat
Those of you who live in places that typically have four seasons might remember, perhaps with fondness, how “spring” used to be a proper season. It often came on gently, progressed slowly, and then eased itself into summer’s heat and humidity over a period of, oh, a couple of months. It seems these last few [...]
Mother Nature Wastes No Time
This was the dreary sight that awaited me yesterday when I at last began to try to get things readied for spring. I went around and gathered up all the plant identifiers, picked up the landscaping fabric that escaped me last fall, yanked up trellises with dead beans and peas still attached, yarded out the [...]
Big Dreams, Medium-Sized Reality
A little over a week ago or so, when I was planting peas (late, yes,) Mike Neir came into the garden and sat with me awhile. “Is it everything you dreamed of?” he asked. I thought about that for a few seconds before answering, “not yet. Right now, it’s a lot of damn work.” And [...]
Raised Beds
That’s quite the expanse of garden. We’re so lucky to have it, but boy is it turning out to be a lot of work. I’d romanticized the “setup” phase of our first garden so much in my head, and, in the process, had completely forgotten I have a fussy lower back. Gardening is all about [...]
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
- The Lovely Bones by Sebold Alice
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Current books:
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
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Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
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Song of Ice and Fire Set: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
Recent books:
- Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
- A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. by Tom Franklin by Tom Franklin
- Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
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