Category Archives: Trees

The Fallen Sentries — Tornado Be Gone!

Friday, May 8, was an unusual morning. We planned on some rain.  I’d been paying the price of an encounter with poison ivy. But, the storms came into the country from the west and wreaked severe damage. I understand the need for nature.  I watch those African reports where they show wild animals doing uncivilized…

Paper, Paper for the Garden

 Today, a package arrived with laptop platforms.  Really cool ones that will be more comfortable on a lap than the big one I have.  They are the ones from Allsop that kind of clip onto the laptop when it is closed.  No place for the mouse like the one I have from LapWorks.  But unfolded,…

July 4 — Making a Family Tradition

We enjoyed a July 4 visit with family from North Carolina.  The day was a not-too hot, humid holiday that let us move around outside some to show off the garden and the horses, then duck back into the AC!   Our happy, sweaty, July 4 tradition ‘under construction’ was transplanting a Pawlonia tree.  Good…