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Just from a morning walk through the garden today- flowers, blackberries, melon, tomatoes, apricots, pluots, peaches, grapes, squash. Also, drying lots of flowers for the fall wreath-making parties. Also, got away for a few days to visit the redwood trees and walk through Fern Canyon along the Northern Coast of California - 3.5 hour drive [...]

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The pottery ladies (no, I will resist shortening that to the ‘potties’) have turned their attention to creating some garden art. It is really quite a process as they discover and work with the rather inconsistencies of firing a glaze. They are using leather strips to bring it all together and the kitchen table is [...]

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I have had more jobs than years lived, I think. One of these days I need to take a walk down memory lane and write them all down. I was thinking about one of them the other day. I had a paid summer internship at a television station in Sacramento, California where I was assigned [...]

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Last year, our first official year with our micro- flower farm - not that we specialized in tiny flowers, more like just a relatively small space - the weeds were very challenging. So this year, we’re using some of the more commercially available solutions which includes permeable weed cloth and planting cloth with ready-made holes [...]

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My grandson called today to see if I wanted to explore some territory he’s never seen before. His mother, my daughter, told him that he didn’t even need to ask, just show up because Grandpa loves little road trips. We headed northwest into the eastern slope of the Mendocino Mountain Range. The east slope is [...]