WITHOUT even trying. They’re just naturally there, fresh for the picking. Gotta love that.

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We all have something in our garden that we want more than anything to grow and produce.

Mine:  the concord grape vines.

And, they REFUSE to cooperate.

All three of them.

Granted, they’re young – (3 yrs)

(And they’ve been given lots of love, for the most part — I’m admittedly a fearful pruner)

This year looked to be the year…I was so hopeful…the vines were lush and healthy…an abundance of beautiful clusters of berries had set.

I was SOOOOOOO excited.

Then, sometime between sundown and sunrise…..

They turned on me.

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She’s a determined little thing. (my daughter)

And she refuses to just give up and let any plant that has an ounce of ‘green hope’, die.

From thinning the seedlings…..

We had to create a rescue unit for the spindly things I was just going to ‘toss’.

These were now Madeline’s responsibility to water and care for.

And I’ll be darned…she didn’t lose one of them.

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One (of the many) things I LOVE about my husband is that he can build anything and he’s what you would call ‘fast-acting’…….even if it’s just something you mention in passing….like one of those, “Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if” or “what if”….kind of things…(not gonna lie…I do play that card once in a while.**wink)

If it’s an idea that intrigues/excites him or he’s ‘in the mood’ or he’s looking for a mindless stress buster…..he’ll disappear, and the next thing you know he’s back with a prototype or something. Read the rest of this entry →

When she was little, she always called them ‘seaberries’.

And they were one of her favorites….

She’s now excited to be growing her own. Read the rest of this entry →

• I could feel it under my bare feet as I walked through the house,
• and as I rested my arm on the sofa,
• as I cleared the table,
• as I opened the car door. Read the rest of this entry →

It’s the little things.

Like seeing something you plant

BLOOM for the first time. Read the rest of this entry →

They’ll brighten your space.

Regardless of where you work or what you do. Read the rest of this entry →

Like a lot of you, we’ve been in serious gardening mode the past few weeks, and it’s been DELIGHTFUL.  Lots of digging, planting and an intense observation of growth (in more ways than one). We ended up expanding our efforts into three other areas of the yard this year.

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