June 2021 Grow up | Train your Tomatoes May 2021 Grow Up with Your Containers April 2021 Recycling for Seed Pots March 2021 Homemade Suet Cake Quick and Easy Birdhouse February 2021 Button Paper Clips Button Tree Fabric Door Heart January 2021 Christmas Card Ornaments Ways to Repurpose Christmas Trees Toothpick Ornaments December 2020 […]
Where to begin? At the end? Yes, it’s finally the end of the old year that brought us so much turmoil and turned our lives upside down. So let‘s happily wave good-bye to 2020 and look forward expectantly to 2021. Let us begin anew…
Christmas trees can be put to good use after the holidays. Here are some tips for repurposing a tree. Begin by removing all decorations, including tinsel. And of course, don’t do this with an artificial tree! The first thing is to get it out of the house. Dragging a no-longer-fresh Christmas tree outside after the […]
Fog in January brings a wet spring. A favorable January brings us a good year. If grass grows in January, it will grow badly the whole year. A summerish January, a winterish spring.
As Treasurer of the Garden Club, the last time I had an opportunity to present the Treasurer’s Report was back in March for the month of February 2020. Thankfully our bank account was strong. When everything came to a halt, there was great concern not so much about income but about not retaining our membership […]
With the start of the new year, our theme of starting anew, we are re-using and re-purposing items we might already have around the house. I have two crafts and a great recipe to share! Crafts Christmas Card Ornaments Don’t throw away those gorgeous Christmas cards that you got this year (actually last year, now). […]
While the 2020 holidays were unlike any others in memory, one tradition in our home endured. Celebrated every year on the day after Christmas, it’s called Wing Chair Day. I highly recommend you plan one for yourself. The idea arrived years ago. Faced with a marathon run of shopping, wrapping, cooking and entertaining, I would […]
Where to begin? At the end? Yes, it’s finally the end of the old year that brought us so much turmoil and turned our lives upside down. So let‘s happily wave good-bye to 2020 and look forward expectantly to 2021. There is much hope in the air now with vaccines on the horizon so that […]
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June is planting time. Your dreams have now come to fruition. Sit back and enjoy your garden colors and blooms. ANNUALS Annuals are great to fill in the spaces your perennials, shrubs and trees leave. Remember which annuals you planted last year and watch for seedlings of those annuals (and make a note or list for next […]