In the Spring of 2009, we washed and painted half the fencing in our backyard. This half was not done. 'nuff said. Delegating ...

Mr. PHT has been lobbying me for a fire pit for two summers, now. I relented last week. It helped Mr. PHT's cause that there are enormou...

I have been thinking about having a decent vegetable garden for many years. I don't know the first thing about gardening except you have...

You may remember my accidental drastic pruning of our anemic rose "bush" last year. Just in case you have trouble visualizing a m...

This is the first holiday weekend of summer. Or, rather, it is supposed to be. When I lived in Ontario, it was known as the "Two-four...

At first, there was the inevitable panic about the colour. It had the unfortunate characteristic of looking just like the original colour al...

So, a few weeks ago, the hubby asks me, "What do you want for Mother's Day?" And I said either; a) Please finish the fire...

I had honestly thought it would all be gone by now . I thought we'd be cleaning out the garage and building frames for raised beds and p...

Most of these were enjoyed in Aurelia's Birthday dinner salad. Tomatoes symbolise the purpose of having a food garden. It was The En...

Sometimes it pays to procrastinate! The geraniums (2) were 1/2 off--$1.50 each. They had no blooms whatsoever. I talked to another shopper a...

It feels like giving up. It probably isn't. But it might be. What am I giving up? No, not food, not chocolate, no, nothing really that m...

Notice anything different? My neighbour had her son "who was in landscaping for six years" trim the tree. I was not at all impress...

Remember The Grid ? The consensus seems to be that since I have an asymmetrical house, the grid would not be terribly helpful to me as a too...

The Grid a tool--and not all tools are the best tool for the job. Both John Brookes and Rosemary Alexander, and even, in a different way, Go...

My camera died at the first garden of the second day. That put a kibosh on my plans to take pictures...and analyse later. But I did what I c...