This year the garden has been a wreck. It is little and cold comfort that the neighbors are in the same boat. I remember last year thinking how beautiful and bountiful the garden was and how I hoped it wasn't a fluke. And while I do not believe that we a… more »

Dear Grandpa, We've had a lot of rain in the past few days. In fact, one night we got up to find that between midnight and five in the morning we had gotten just over five inches of rain. My little tray of seedlings was full of water and all of their… more »

"Good lord! What is all the crap at the end of the driveway?!" I am standing at the window peering out at a giant pile of snow that has landed in the spot that I spent an hour yesterday shoveling." "Prolly just where the plow happened to clear itself,… more »

Ohhhhh, the weather outside is frightful . . . Um, well, I mean we only got a few inches so not actually scary as such. And the fire is sooo delightful . . . Okay, I don't really have a fire. I've grown quite fond of the space heater though.… more »

I woke up this morning and shivered. Someone had left the A/C on again! I ran downstairs and over to the air conditioner which sat quietly in the darkness. That should have been my first clue. It has been dark lately during my morning wake up hour (5-6)… more »