A few weeks ago I noticed that some daisies were emerging on the small hillside behind our house. I was both surprised and relieved to see them appear. Last Fall, B.J., a fellow member of my church mentioned that he was digging up a bunch of his daisies to make room for a water feature [...]
I really wanted to plant a pumpkin patch this year. I have long had a secret fantasy of owning a pumpkin farm, except that in my fantasy, there is no work involved. In my fantasy, I inherit a pumpkin farm that is planted and ready to harvest. Someone has already built a very cute farm [...]
The Harvest Moon Cone-flower is absolutely my favorite perennial.
Yup.
That’s the one.
No doubt about it.
Now what should we talk about?
Did I say the Harvest Moon Cone-flower?
What I meant to say was the Purple Cone-flower.
The same one that Hal used to make his tincture.
Oh!
Wait!
It’s Russian sage!
It’s Russian Sage!
Gosh I’m spacey today!
Russian Sage [...]
Our town is nestled in at the northern edge of the Flint Hills, one of the last places on earth where Native Tallgrass can still be found covering the prairie in huge quantities. There are several Tallgrass preserves in our area, and the Country Doctor and I love to take the kids to the Konza [...]
This story begins with a nice pile of bricks. A pile of bricks that our family salvaged from an old sidewalk in town which ran in front of my friend Kara’s house. Kara was having a new sidewalk put in and called to let me know that we could take the old bricks [...]
Is there a way to make a post on grass interesting? Because that is how I have been occupying myself these last few weeks. Growing grass. An acre of it. All around the house and the barn. And I’ll be darned if it ain’t coming up! All over the [...]
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We have our own ice rink right outside our mudroom door. Lucky Us! It starts at the bottom step of our stoop and stretches all the way to the barn where we park our cars. Every morning we carefully pick our way across the frozen landscape trying to find a brave lonely [...]