Monthly Archives: May 2008

It has made me so very happy to work in a vegetable garden again. I love hanging out with my folks and helping things grow and dreaming of eating. The garden is starting to flower and bear fruit! Here’s a … Continue reading →

One day very soon, I’ll make my mark on the moon. The Professor sent my name in to this web site, and now my name will go on a disk to the moon on the next Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. So … Continue reading →

This is “The Moat” at the Fifth Earl in Decatur. It. Is. The. Best. Barbecue. Ever. (Except for my dad’s, of course.) After the Professor treated me to this beef feast, we happened upon a lovely art fair in downtown … Continue reading →

I am so tired. I come home at night and by 7:30 I am ready for sleep. But I don’t sleep. I stubbornly fight it off, anxious to eat dinner and wash dishes and knit. This strategy is not working … Continue reading →

It was a gorgeous weekend. The Professor and I spent it resting and recovering and seeing the local sites. Saturday morning we went to the new Farmer’s Market in Bishop Park, but they’d sold out of produce by nine a.m. … Continue reading →

I can’t resist posting a few more flowers. These are foxgloves blooming in my yard, and I love them so. The pinkish-purplish ones I grew from seed last year. The yellow ones I bought at heaven last year, also known … Continue reading →

This peony has been leafing out in my yard since I bought this place, and this year, at last, it bloomed its glory. I am over the bug but still exhausted by it. Maybe one more day of rest will … Continue reading →

I have been sick a lot in the last year. This time a stomach bug. I do not handle these well. I seem to be keeping down some ginger ale now, about fifteen hours after onset. For a while I … Continue reading →

Saturday morning we went to Washington Farms to pick big, ripe, delicious, sweet, red strawberries. Here they are as babies. I might’ve been sampling the produce. The Professor took this picture and a few others here with his new camera. … Continue reading →

The beans planted last week are coming up! The first set Daddy planted had been eaten up by birds, so this time he set two-by-fours atop the rows. We pulled them off today and found these. Daddy hoed up four … Continue reading →