Living here in the Smoky Mountains during the winter made for some easy living. If it snowed, the sun shone the next day. If the temperatures dipped one day, we were in shorts the next. It’s been a lovely winter in our new home. But now spring gradually spreads itself over us, andContinue reading “Happy Spring – Building a Garden”
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Saying Good-bye
It took me by surprise when I shut the garage door and prepared to leave the house for the last time. I sat in the driveway, crying. I called my husband, but he was in a meeting. So I sat and cried. We loved this home where we’d lived for the past five years. WithContinue reading “Saying Good-bye”
THE RITES AND RIGHTS OF SPRING
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain It’s a rite of spring around our house that my husband beginsContinue reading “THE RITES AND RIGHTS OF SPRING”
Winter Gardening Blues and Greens
Usually by this time of year, hubby happily starts a multitude of seedlings and places them under grow lights in anticipation of planting time. It’s different this year. He’s planted a few seedlings–onions, greens–but nothing like in years past because this year our house and, of course, our garden are for sale. We don’t knowContinue reading “Winter Gardening Blues and Greens”
Where Did Summer Go?
I haven’t forgotten you, Living Lightly blog. In fact, I think of you often, and then something comes along to interrupt so I don’t end up writing the post. I’m sorry. Now that I’ve apologized, it’s time to move on–right into autumn. Now that I think about it, I know exactly where summer went. ItContinue reading “Where Did Summer Go?”
Bread & Sauce
Sunday afternoon fun. I raided the freezer and found a bag of shredded zucchini and a bag of fresh-frozen tomatoes. Baking bread and cooking sauce smells soon permeated the airwaves of our house. Eating it wasn’t so bad either. Recipes from From Seed to Table: Walnut Date Zucchini BreadContinue reading “Bread & Sauce”
Baby, It’s Cold Outside, But Summer Produce is Hot!
It’s that time of year when it’s difficult to imagine the green of a lush garden as we look at the winter vistas outside the window. The seed catalogs arriving daily give us hope that the frozen tundra of our landscape in a few short months will turn into loose dirt ready for planting. AtContinue reading “Baby, It’s Cold Outside, But Summer Produce is Hot!”
#Gifts that Last for a Year
It’s the afternoon of Christmas Eve, and my husband has been eerily quiet down in the den. I’m taking the moments of quiet to lie on the living room couch in front of the lighted tree reading a novel set in Key West. Snow flurries float by the window, but I’m transported to the tropicsContinue reading “#Gifts that Last for a Year”
Freeze those Tomatoes
By Patricia Zick @PCZick The tomatoes aren’t producing enough this year for me to make my Italian sauce or salsa. The peppers aren’t doing well either. We blame it on the weather, which has been too wet here for the tomatoes liking. We are getting enough tomatoes to eat at least once a day. I’veContinue reading “Freeze those Tomatoes”
Garden Overflow Madness
By Patricia Zick @PCZick The rest period is over for gardening here in western Pennsylvania. First, we had a very long winter. Then we went to hot and humid for a week. Now for at least two weeks, the weather pattern is stuck over us with showers nearly every day. It feels as if I’mContinue reading “Garden Overflow Madness”
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