Category: General Interest

  • Garden 2024

    2024 was another good year in the garden. Photo gallery.

  • Garden News 2023

    In the garden this year, there was a fair bit of wood getting cut. Apart from the damage the rabbits did to the burning bushes, we fairly drastically thinned the lilacs, turning them from a hedge into individual bushes at the bottom of the garden. The smoke bush (yes, I get confused with smoke bush […]

  • Powell Garden 2022

    2022 was another strange year for growing things. We started some Morning Glory seeds inside and got a good response, but then the transplants didn’t do so well. A couple put out some half-hearted blossoms and then seemed to give up. Until September, when another pair took off and produced a number of decent flowers. […]

  • Beaver Lodge

    Up until a couple of years ago, I would have laughed if anyone had suggested that I would be living in a suburban area and could look out of our laundry room window and be able to see a beaver lodge. OK, maybe I’d need binoculars, but literally three minutes from home, there it is. […]

  • Temporary Filler – for just the next year or so

    On March 15th we migrated to a new host, doubling up on some of our hosting requirements, and rather than just dump the old contents into this virgin, untouched space, I thought a redesign and general closet cleaning was in order. I’m hoping that by putting a date on this I can create some pressure […]