The Place to Take a Humor Break
My obituary will probably say, “He enjoyed gardening.” This will be a lie. “He enjoyed gardening” conjures a romantic image of me as smilingly strolling through tall waves of colorful, sweetly fragrant flowers, leisurely cutting […]
On this episode we talk with Patricia H. McLoud who is the author of “The Green Goddess of Gardening.” This book describes exactly how and what to do to develop gardens and then care for […]
There’s a joke that a British gardener left a suicide note of a single word—clay. If I told the joke, the punchline would be “roses.” Imagine you have a beloved 98-year-old grandmother. Let’s call her […]
The deer members of Club Critter in my back yard are stupid. There’s one doe in particular who’s not exactly the sharpest point on the antler rack. My husband named her Clarice, like Rudolph’s girlfriend. […]
I never felt moved to garden. A weekly CSA full of carrots would be delicious, but why squander good money on compost when Andres and I pitch it from my room every day? Madam, on […]
He’s the cutest little thing, but he has to go. The “he” is a wild rabbit that lives in our suburban backyard. How do I know he’s a he? Well, he’s been here for over […]
This was a week of stress. I admit that I did it to myself. I started to think about work stuff and family stuff and then I couldn’t sleep, and then I got more stressed […]
