Life is good.

Today I get to pick up 100 free grape hyacinth bulbs. I'm very excited. These will go next to our door with some marigolds or mums (purp...

Oregon ants smell when you squish them. It's annoyingly true, and really obnoxious. Not only do you have Ant Fest 2010, but when you squ...

SIGH. Two important things were learned yesterday. 1) When you have a freezer for extra storage space, make sure that power strip you have i...

Raspberries: Yesterday, I filled the final raspberry bed. Before I put the last three plants in, I installed almost the rest of the trellis ...

Yesterday, Craigslist was good to me. I found two cornelian cherry trees (aka: cornels), one bearing red cherries, one bearing yellow. The t...

This was the front walkway before. Well, kinda before: this picture shows a couple of stones removed, as well as a plant. But you get the id...

My chicks upgraded from a 120 watt bulb they used throughout the day yesterday to a 250 watt infrared bulb. It was a good upgrade. This is ...

Meet the Fluffy Ladies. Well (as B so very well put it this morning), right now they're more appropriately dubbed "the Fluffy Babie...

Got a call today from someone in what now seems like a past life-- from when I worked up in Portland. It brought back a slew of old memories...

I finally got in touch with a guy at the Department of Environmental Quality. He stated that any soil contamination was limited to the actua...