Growing up, I absolutely dreaded “it’s time to weed the garden” days. From my recollection, it was always hot and miserable, with the sun beating down on our heads and the back of our necks, as we went row by row, hoeing and pulling. Weeding the garden was always a…
Like many western states, our area seemed to have more of a winter the second half of April this year than we received the whole month of January. The weather was cold, and after weeks of prayers for added moisture in the mountains, snow finally came. Yet just as quickly…
Like everywhere else in the Rocky Mountain region of the northwest, the winter of 2026 has been extremely mild in our neighborhood. To a point of concern. There have been many prayers for moisture, particularly in the higher elevations. Prayers that we will have enough moisture to offer green grass…
We had our first frost last Monday. Though this is our first autumn season in our current area — and everything is new — the first frost still came as a bit of a surprise. I had fully expected to have another two weeks before that first layer of frost…
Here we are at the start of the calendar summer, and we are waist deep in peas at my place (literally, waist deep). My little helpers and I were out in the garden yesterday and picked this lovely large bowl full of sugar snap peas. We are a few…
