LivingSmall

The doorstep Buddha and the daffodils were buried this morning under several inches of new, wet snow. It snowed all day — big fat wet flakes covering everything in the garden. I love this time of year. One day it’s seventy and sunny and I’m outside checking buds on the roses, looking to see which […]

Sorry it’s been so quiet around here lately. I spent all last week fighting with my wireless connection — for some strange reason, I could get internet connectivity during the afternoons and evening, but not the morning?! It was maddening — and was one of those things that took up hours and hours of my […]

Okay, I’m an official dog-geek now. Look, it’s Odin, Prince Rainier’s faithful, six-and-one-half year old dog following his coffin through the streets of Monaco. The news wire said that Odin followed along "limping slightly." Make me cry already.

Yesterday it was 75 degrees and sunny. Today it’s snowing.

So — now that it’s spring, and I’ve got teeny tiny little spinach (and arugula) seedlings poking up in the garden, I find myself most nights rooting around in the bottom bin of my basement freezer pulling out packets of spinach and chard I put up last summer. When I put them up, I envisioned […]

My new remote temperature sensor came yesterday, and this morning while the sensor in the garden read 29 degrees, the one in the cold frames read 48 degrees. The cold frames actually work! They hold heat overnight — still too cold to leave my tender tomatoes out in overnight, but I’m just thrilled that they […]

Sometimes a person just needs a weekend where you really don’t do anything. This is a concept I came to late in life — until I moved to California and got my job at the Big Corporation, I’d always worked at least two jobs, and one of them was usually retail. Which means I didn’t […]

It’s spring, which means time to spend the weekend doing little projects in my garden. Some of you may remember last spring when I built my cold frames. They were nice cold frames, but I didn’t take into account the famous winter winds of Livingston. The cold frames didn’t weather winter particularly well […]