Drum Composter to Give Away

UPDATE As promised, as soon as the coffee started working this morning, the contest is over and the comments form is disabled. I’m going to be picking winners next week (all week by the number of poems here) so do have patience. Contest OK – here’s the deal. The folks at at Clean Air Gardening [...]

Fall Gardening

Fall gardening is the gardening time of the year when spending time outdoors can be a marvellous pleasure or an unmitigated disaster. The other day – in the cold – I had a rather quickly passing thought that I’d go out and plant some bulbs. I got as far as the top step on the [...]

Merry Christmas 2008

I want to wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all the blessings of this season be yours along with my wish that the Simple Gifts of life will be yours in 2009. Along with that of course goes my wish that your gardens be green, your weeds [...]

Do You Know a Terrorist?

I’m flying to Portland this fall to the GWA conference so it was with a great deal of “satisfaction” that I learned that the U.S. authorities now have over 1 million people on their “watch-list” for flying. This is a list that compares your name to a list of people who are “suspects” and need [...]

A tale of three guys

OK, so I’m sitting on the back porch after dinner last night. The birds are singing like mad, the sun is filtered by the vines over top of the deck and the air has the soft lilting fragrance of freshly mown hay. I have a beer in my hand, my feet are bare and I’m [...]

Joining the 21st Century.

It would seem that I have just joined the 21st century. This particular blog post is being dictated through Dragon NaturallySpeaking and while I had some adventures getting the software installed, my first tiny baby steps are quite fun. I run a Mac computer with Windows running inside a software program called Parallels and I [...]

My Latest Air Canada Adventure

There are times that I wonder how Air Canada stays in business. I need to travel to Portland in September to the garden writers conference (I’ve been threatened with the loss of back-of-the-bus party membership status if I don’t show up after a few years of absence). I do the basic research and call the [...]

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