After we got done visiting Alan’s bees, Chris and I went to the Dallas Arboretum. It’s been years since I’d been there, and Chris had only been in one corner for a race that he runs which starts there. We walked all over the grounds, and saw and sniffed all kinds of spring flowers. Hellebore […]
I’m going to be getting a couple thousand bees in two weeks. Until today, I’ve never actually opened a hive; I wanted some first-hand experience. My husband Chris was kind and brave enough to take pictures. Alan from the Trinity Valley Beekeeper’s Association was kind enough to let me come over and “help” (i.e., get […]
The City (I’m guessing here, it could have been any of two or three street-maintenance bodies; it’s a City waterway at the crossroads of a City street and an Interstate Highway, adjacent to a railroad right of way… but, whoever usually has to mow it) decided to brighten up some rough areas near my office […]
Well, with all the snow this past weekend, I was expecting at least a LITTLE garden damage… I had been holding off on planting the tender plants, but the baby spinach, the tiny little beet seedlings – it just didn’t seem like they would make it through unscathed under an inch-thick blanket of the white […]
We didn’t quite wake up to the Winter Wonderland experience that we’ve had already twice this year – but there was a blanket of snow on most easily-cooled surfaces. It looks like we had a little under an inch accumulation. Some areas north and east of here got six to eight inches. The sidewalks and […]
I’ve lived in Dallas now for seventeen years. It will typically snow once every other year, sometimes as much as once a year. This year, we’ve had, I believe, five or six days with snow. I’ve never seen it this late – it’s just bizarre! It didn’t start until well after dark, so I could […]
The Dallas Handweavers and Spinners Guild show opened yesterday. Actually, it opened the day before – but yesterday was the actual opening, cookies and punch and little tomatoes on toothpicks type thing. The Library hangs the show and does all of the promotional materials, posters, signage – they do a great job, and it saves […]
Five days, actually… Everything’s coming up! I plant on the philosophy of “one for the rook, one for the crow, one to rot, and one to grow” – but EVERY seed is growing. Shanghai Bok Choi is starting to get its true leaves. These are Osaka Purple Mustard. We’ve got a lot of interesting-colored things… […]
I honestly don’t remember where I read it, but somewhere in my studies I’ve come across the statement that the right time to start taking eggs out to hatch is when the mulberry leaves are the size of a mouse’s ear. Without getting into a Monty Python skit about whether it’s an African or European […]
It’s that time. Everything is starting to bust out, here. The one garden bed that has been turned and seeded is coming to life with hundreds of tiny leaves. The lesson from these baby Shanghai Bok Choi plants, is that I need to learn to plant things on a grid. I’m a random sprinkler by […]