Monthly Archives: April 2012

Garden Update

When the house was built, the builder saw fit to put in five elaeag­nus bushes in the front beds. These plants make great hedge rows but ter­ri­ble bushes for the front of the house. Last year, I removed 2 of them and early this year I took out the other three. The bed in front

Bringing In The Fava Beans

The prob­lem with work­ing is that it doesn’t leave much time for writ­ing though cer­tain peo­ple in the audi­ence might think that’s actu­ally a bless­ing. Life has been full lately in a way dif­fer­ent from any­time I remem­ber in the last 5 years but espe­cially dif­fer­ent from the last 10 months. On top of that,