These roses are meant to be a deep maroon but must reside in the greenhouse due to requiring protection from biblical amounts of grasshoppers. im hoping once i bring the lights down closer those roses will darken up considerably, but without fail they still smell amazing, especially the blush colored ones.
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Trying to Make a Dent in the Seven Trees I Need to Plant Before Winter
As i get older and my auto immune disorder progresses i am forced to do things in a different way…slower and more incremental. It is endlessly frustrating because my mind still very much has adhd even if my body is heck bent on eating itself, and my brain only has two modes: “get shit done” …
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Turning 37
An Oil Change
It is Saturday. I have finished working and i am sitting on a broken futon in the walmart automotive center waiting room. Its been 2 hours. They are still not finished changing the oil and inflating the tires but ive been here before so i know the drill and i brought a book. I am …
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If a man needs to hurt you or scare you to remind you that you need protection, he has disqualified himself from the job.
An Ongoing Problem that Required a More Permanent Solution
I live out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by caliche hills dotted with prickly pear and yucca surrounded by oak and cedar woods, peppered with the occasional elm, mimosa, or sumac tree. Rattlesnakes are a real and present issue. Now, if one keeps the lawn mowed, the snakes move on through. If one lets …
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Making Cloth Dolls
3 years ago one of my friends’ granddaughters saw something on her shelf and said, “Nana, can i have that?” It was a cloth doll made by hand in Mexico…from a long time ago. My friend hesitated and then told her granddaughter that this doll was very special to her because it was given to …
A Little Flathead Snake
A Pop-up Storm from the South
A little tiny afternoon downpour blew through. i brought the dogs in, closed the greenhouse windows, put out a bucket, and we all took a nap.
Torvi
This is Torvi. She is the first orb weaver to show up this year. She has a web that spans the width of the whole back of the green house. That’s where i first found her and where she has hung out since. One day i was doing my regular warfare with the grasshoppers who …