Blessings Darlings!
I’ve been looking at my tomato planting options today. I’m not 100% happy with the variety of seeds I bought. Unless otherwise noted, all these tomatoes are open pollinated, tho’ not all are considered ‘heritage’.<br(…)
Category Archives: Fern’s Fronds
Great Depression Story
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Times were tough back in the Depression. They were especially tough if your father was an alcoholic who had been fired from his job as an insurance salesman and your mother was abusive, and you were still in high(…)
Spring seeds
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Yesterday I spend in the garden – today we have sleet and cold rain. Pretty typical!
In today’s part of “Quest for Vegetable Seeds”, I was able to get to two different ‘Dollar Stores’. One I knew(…)
The First Aches of Spring
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I started working in the garden today. I have to move fast so I can get early spring crops in, well, in early spring. I didn’t finished putting mulch down to smother the grass last fall, so I have to do it(…)
EOM
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Have you noticed that the ‘end of money’ EOM keeps coming earlier and earlier compared to the “end of month” EOM? Here, where we’re supposed to get 2 paychecks a month, we’ve only gotten 2 1/3 since November 1. (…)
Healthy Eating
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So it’s noon, and so far I’ve eaten the way …. sigh …. the way I feel I should be eating all the time. Brunch was one small left over cubed baked potato, leftover home-canned green beans, diced onion and red(…)
Dang Entropy!
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We use our toaster oven a heck of a lot. Altho’ it is not at all insulated, we figure that by heating the smaller space for small baking jobs we save energy and money.
No, I’ve not measured the electric(…)
Hoping for Mud Season
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I mentioned “mud season” in last week’s Imbolc post. For those of you with lawns rather than pasture areas, let me explain this a bit. Mud is what you get when you combine pastures with animals (especially(…)
Imbolg!
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Being as I’m even more of a hermit than my friend Suz is, I don’t get out much. But today I found myself driving off to the Big City on business, and I ran smack dab into Imbolg.
At first(…)
Good News!
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We just got off the phone with the State of West Virginia …. and discovered if the only employees of a business are the owners they don’t have to pay unemployment insurance.
Wow!
Instead(…)