Archive for the 'Garden' Category

Last harvest

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Some photos from our last harvest trip to Barefoot Gardens for 2009

Odds and ends Sunday

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Odds and ends for an Autumn Sunday: pumpkins in a tree, running a 5K, Amelia nearly walking and talking, getting a jump on Spring courses, writing my application for sabbatical leave.

Goodbye 2008

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Let’s review:

Jan 5: Madelyn starts the Big Girl sleep plan. I’m happy to say this continues; the Bee is pretty easy to put to bed now.
Feb 21: I get an awful flu bug, missing classes and losing eight pounds in less than a week.
Mar 10: A misstep down the stairs, and I [...]

Frost

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised about this, but there’s a frost warning for tonight. And again Friday. In 2007 we had tomatoes in November. Not this year.

Odds and ends Thursday

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Catch-all: strawberries, cleaning, accessibility internship, writing a review

Odds and ends Friday

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Light on the blog as I’ve been heavy on everything else here lately.
Accessibility: the WCAG Samurai (Joe Clark &c.) have published the draft of their errata to WCAG 1.0. Also recently, the Illinois web accessibility bill passed the house unanimously; a signature from Blagojevich is all that’s needed to make it law. I’ve also been [...]

Odds and ends Friday

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Too long since one of these catch-alls…
Madelyn: our girl has extended her mobility into the Z dimension; she’s climbing like mad now. Footstools lead to tables lead to trouble. The Bee now pushes chairs around the house to grab stuff which Mama and Daddy thought was “safe.” So, more reasons to keep everything dangerous [...]

Garden gone

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Looks like a cold snap is coming. We may even get some snow.
Last year we had a few mild frosts in October, but most of the garden made it into mid-November. If we see high 20s tonight and tomorrow, that’ll be the end of the tomatoes and peppers that are still cranking out fruit at [...]

Greens

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

How to make greens

Garden crawl

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Erin’s work in the garden; crawling