It’s amazing where you can find interesting displays this time of year. I snapped this picture in the gift second of the grocery store this weekend. I just love the feel of this tables cape. I tend to prefer more color around the holidays, but this is so casual and sleek at the same time. And yep, I bought those ...
It is so hard to blog when you’re never home during daylight hours. These short days are such a bummer, especially because I’m not able to snap a few pictures when I get home. Anyway, I have been working on a bit of Christmas decorating and have a bit more planned for the weekend (I didn’t not get a lot ...
When my oldest dog Hudson was a puppy we took his picture in the yard with a Santa hat on and put it on a holiday card. Our friends and family couldn’t get over how cute he was. By the next year we had added another dog to the family and the two appeared in the card that year. And ...
You might have noticed that I’m a bit of a procrastinator. It is truly one of my least appealing traits (that and that I’m the antithesis of punctual). I think it’s the journalist in me. Almost every journalist I know is a huge procrastinator. I think it might be something related to endorphins and deadlines. Most years I am running ...
I’m a champion online shopper. In fact it’s the main way I buy things now. Last year, I bought what I could locally from small merchants but everything else was purchased online. And it being Cyber Monday (really, they couldn’t think of a better name than that?) there are a lot of great deals out there. So here’s a quick ...
Hi everyone! I’m more than a little excited to be guest posting on one of my favorite blogs today. House of Turquoise is one of my daily reads and it serves as a daily source of inspiration for me. If you’re not already reading it daily, you should be. And if you are a House of Turquoise reader visiting The ...
So help me God if I have to end up making a “countertops” label on this blog. My e-mail to Waterlox (by the way, I underestimated, it has happened way more than twice and technically the countertops are doing OK, but I had the problem again with the desktop): Dear sir or maam, I hope you can help me figure ...
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So, it’s April 1, aka April Fool’s Day. Be warned, folks, the Internet is full of bad jokes that people are falling for left and right. But I hereby proclaim this space to be April Fool’s joke free. Read with confidence. In all seriousness, I’m really excited that we’ve made it to April. Gardening gets […]
I love a good to-do list. For the most part, April is the first real opportunity to get back in the garden in this area and although this week is cold and wet, soon it’ll be time to clean up the yard. So in honor of tomorrow being April and my love of to-do lists, […]
I love asking gardeners what their favorite plant is. It’s an unfair question, I know, and on any given day my answer could be any number of things, but I think it’s an interesting exercise. I reached out to some garden blogging friends to see what their favorite perennial is and here’s what they said. […]
Winter came back. I knew it would. I knew that this mild winter and early spring that we were blessed with was just too good to be true, but mentally I had moved on. The end of the week brought us horrible weather and this morning the trees were shimmering with ice on their branches […]
I am a sucker for new plants. I’m also a sucker for old, tried-and-true varieties, but there is something fun about checking out all the latest and greatest that will be hitting garden centers this year. I’m doing a little series on some of the new plants I’m most excited about this year and I’m […]
My neighbors must be understanding people. Until about midnight every night a bright white light emanates from the sliding glass door in the office, illuminating our back/side yard and, I’m assuming, that side of my neighbors’ house. Fortunately their bedrooms don’t face this direction, but it’s bright.Of course by this time
The other night I had a dream that I was in a nursery buying potting mix, except it wasn’t called potting mix, it was called compost. And I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out if I wanted ericaceous compost or not. But here’s the thing: Calling potting mix compost is not […]
It’s Friday Finds time, but first I wanted to share a couple pictures from my trip to Austin with Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6 gang last week. Troy-Bilt sent the Saturday6, a group of bloggers who work with them, on a shindig to find out about some new products, explore Austin and do a little good. (Disclaimer: They […]
I hesitate to even tempt the weather gods by posting this, but holy smokes are we in a stretch of beautiful weather here. The snow is gone, the little creek in the back yard is running (and astonishingly not a single Newfoundland dog has figured that out yet), bulbs are peeking their heads out of […]
My apologies for the absence last week. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram you’ll know that I was down in Austin for a Saturday6 (Troy-Bilt’s blogger team) event. I had all kinds of plans to get some posts up but I ought to stop making plans like that because it never happens. We […]
This weekend was one of those amazing gifts that Mother Nature throws our way every once in a while that revive the sleeping soul of a gardener. Saturday was in the 50s and we set a record on Sunday with temps in the low 60s. This is pretty much unheard of for Wisconsin in February. […]
It’s Friday Finds time! If you missed today’s earlier post showing off my now hanging staghorn fern, check it out here. Deborah Silver photo I have long been in love with Deborah Silver’s “grass” floor, but now she’s gone and put English daisies on it and I’m completely smitten. Some great seed starting do&
Remember how I repotted the staghorn fern in a grapevine ball a couple months ago? Because of the renovation to the back room (which has been finished for awhile but I still haven’t gotten around to putting everything back in that room and therefore having shown you what it looks like now), the fern has […]
Much of the past decade of gardening at my house has been an alternating pattern of creating new gardens and improving existing gardens. A couple years ago I realized that I probably have as much garden square footage as I can handle (and frankly probably too much) at this point in my life, so my […]
