life

  • Hot Plant Summer.

    In the months since my last post, I have assisted in my local demonstration garden doing everything from sowing seeds to transplanting seedlings to trimming plants to watering plants to digging up weeds. I have also completed exams for about 600 pages of material on shrubs, trees, pests, fire safe(r) landscapes and more. I also Read more


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  • The Emerald City

    In a lot of ways, our arrival in the Seattle Area felt like how, in the Wizard of Oz, everything goes from faded grayscale tones to technicolor. All I needed were a pair of ruby (or silver) slippers. For the first time in two years, my entire family was under one roof on a day Read more


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