Gardenwife’s Plot

A plot can be a garden, a grave or a story.

Happy time: Weezer’s video for Island in the Sun

Since getting back from vacation, I’ve been in a real funk. I just can’t get myself moving. I overdid it a little while we were in Kentucky and I’ve been sore this week, so that’s part of it. The rest, who knows…Maybe it’s that persistent feeling of being in limbo.
What’s a good remedy for the [...]

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Camping: Day 2

7:42am Monday 9/15
The inverter was not, of course, sufficient for powering the coffee maker! LOL We thought mom and dad had some pots in here, but alas they do not. So, We can’t boil water for coffee. We were able to run the grinder, so the smell is torture. Howie didn’t want to [...]

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Bada bing bada BOOM

Wednesday night found us listening to the snaps and booms of firecrackers in our neighborhood. Around 11:00pm, we heard a succession of loud booms. We assumed someone had put some big firecrackers in a trash can, for these explosions had that kind of muffled sound. Seconds later, however, our power flickered and went off. It [...]

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Mmm-mmmm Mulberries

It’s mulberry season here in central Ohio. We’re fortunate to have an old black mulberry tree (M. nigra L.) just over the property line. I’m not sure which cultivar of black mulberry it is, but the ripe fruits are plump and jet black - delicious.
Technically, the tree belongs to the school behind us, but no [...]

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Dawes sunset

I took the long way home from work yesterday, stopping at the Dawes Arboretum to watch the sunset and check out the cypress swamp. It was chilly and the clouds kept rolling by. They cleared up in time for me to enjoy a beautiful sunset from the vantage point of the observation deck positioned on top [...]

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Sneaking back into the blogosphere

I have been busy the last several weeks. Where’s the time gone? Since I last posted, spring has arrived, my forsythia has flowered, dropped its blooms and popped out foliage. The goldfinches have gone from their dull winter plumage to their brilliant gold. Lilac blooms in our neighbor’s yard scented the air then turned brown. [...]

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The bumblebee flight fallacy


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