Last time we talked about getting dirty; this time we are going to talk about getting clean. No, we are not going to go out and take a bath in the madman’s lily pond. We are going to clean up our earth. Two days from now is the 51st celebration of Earth Day. Bugs…
Spring is here. Time to get outside and get dirty. First things first, do not plant any warm weather crops in the ground. It is still much too early for that. But, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be out in the garden. Around here, the weather seems to have warmed up. The snow has gone,…
Reflections of a year in quarantine. It’s been one year. One long year of quarantine. A year ago, the news was grim. The world around us was shutting down. Uncertainty was rampant. Offices were closed. Events were cancelled. Restaurants were shuttered. Schools were shut down. And the governor kept issuing executive orders shutting more stuff…
The madman is excited. March is full of great gardening events. His head is ready to explode with all the excitement. As you read this, we are on the cusp of the first great thing. In about 10 weeks, it will be May 15. And, May 15 is the madman’s estimate for the last…
In other years we had the Hartford Flower Show to pull us out of winter hibernation. And, to help us put the finishing touches on our garden plans. I sort of miss the madman running around talking to his plants. Did he really think they would scream, “Take me! Take me!” when he asked who…
We love watching the winter wildlife. As we hit “publish” on our last post, the madman looked at me and said, “Today feels like a bobcat day.” Not sure why he would even think that – it’s been a while since we last saw one. But, as I looked out in the garden, lo and…
The Persephone Period is about to end. The madman and his plants will get a daily dose of 10 hours of sunlight (I wonder what kind of a celebration we’ll have this year). For the past month, he’s been looking at seed catalogs and his garden journal. We are getting through the dark days of…
2021 is here and the madman has been loving the warmer than normal temperatures. He’s not fretting about frozen pipes. He’s not running around in knee-deep snow. In fact, the last precipitation that fell was liquid and he didn’t have to drag out his friend John Deere to help get us out of the driveway….
2020 is almost over. Two days left in this strange and challenging year. The madman says so long 2020. He is not sorry to see the end of it. Nor am I if truth be told. But there are better days ahead. The Solstice Pig has told us so. Eight days ago, the…