The Inconsequential Blogger

I found this quote in the June 7, 2010 issue of Time Magazine . It's by Garrison Keillor. It's almost too true not to repeat. It ori...

Today my daughter and I went out to re-plant our community garden plot. My son and I planted it first several weeks ago. Unfortunately, we h...

We woke up to snow this morning - cottonwood snow. It's really heavy this year, I haven't ever seen quite so much accumulate: The d...

This morning a fog hung over everything in the early hours until the sun rose high enough to burn it away. It left behind some beautiful dro...

I've been searching the wilds for wintergreen plants for a couple of years now. I haven't had any luck. This year I broke down and ...

A new neighbor moved in. I saw him trespassing through my backyard the other day. He may be trouble - for my garden. My new neighbor is a gr...

Boy am I glad I covered my tender little plants last night. We did indeed have a freeze. In my community garden plot we covered 24 little pl...

My son and my husband and I planted three rose bushes out front. It's been cloudy and rainy, but when the sun came out for a few brief m...

And what I mean by that, is that planting my vegetables has nearly killed me. I'll feel better soon, though. I popped an Aleve 30 minut...

I'm not riding in the self-publishing bandwagon, but recently on the Galley Cat website, there have been a couple of posts about succe...