It’s Springing

March 31, 2019

There is still ice on the lakes and patches of snow in shady corners, but spring is here. Melody Maple …

More Seeds, Plus The Dashwoods

December 30, 2018

I could not help myself when the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed catalog arrived. I ordered a few more seeds for …

November 25, 2018

The Dashwoods are two and a half years old now and Marianne has the distinction of being the first of …

November 23, 2018

I did not mean to disappear from blogworld for so long. Between the run-up to November elections—in Minnesota we were …

April 22, 2018

The sound this week was drip, drip, drip as all the snow from the blizzard started melting. That is the …

April 17, 2018

We are finally mostly dug out from the blizzard over the weekend. That was a bit of a surprise, let …

January 14, 2018

We had a lovely few days of thaw this last week only to be plunged back into the Arctic depths …

January 7, 2018

You know in summer when it is really hot and after days of scorching temperatures the heatwave breaks, it’s 10-15 …

December 3, 2017

Back in late October it turned cold pretty fast and we all thought it was sure to stick around. Bookman …