Last week I noticed as I looked out the window that my tulips are peaking out of the ground as are my daylilies, wormwood and phlox. It won’t be long and we will have a lush display of many shades of green with different textures and shapes of leaves. It made me itch to do …
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Lucero De La Tierra
Plants That Tell You When To Water
There are many products on the market that are made to make remembering to water your plants easier. Whether it’s a ceramic worm that changes color or a glass globe with a long tube that sticks into the soil and self waters there is one thing you have to do – PAY ATTENTION. Neither of …
Joined the 350 Challenge
Yesterday I joined the 350 Challenge to help fight climate change. The thank you message I received from Brighter Planet explains why I was inclined to do so even though they had already reached their goal of 350 bloggers. Check out the Brighter Planet 350 Challenge badge in the far right sidebar of my blog. …
Flooding in the Midwest
Last weekend and the beginning of this weeks were horrible days of scary weather. We had tornado warnings, continuous rain and massive flooding. Everywhere you looked in NW Ohio there were rivers and creeks overflowing their banks and low lying areas in farmer’s fields that were flooded. Roads were impassible and even sections of area …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-01
@handbagheaven I’m still looking for a handba. I’ve been shopping at JCPenney, Kohl’s and Sears so far # @eMom after I had DD2 in late December I was away from my computer so long my inbox was buried in 10s of thousands of emails! Yikes # @frandrescher My mother in law is a 18 year …
Have Your Children Participate In Nature
One of the reasons I feel so strongly about involving my little one(s) in the gardening process is because it is such a great learning experience. They learn how to plant seeds, when and how to prepare the ground, what to look for as far as weeds, what parts of a plant are edible or …
Yearning for Spring
With several inches of snow on the ground, below freezing temperatures and days that the roads are so icy I won’t venture out even to get the mail – I really miss being outside. My three year old wants to play in the snow so badly, but when temps are subzero and I have an …
Nostalgia for the Ground
With below zero temperatures, several inches of snow on the ground and a newborn to take care of that keeps me inside all the time – I am seriously missing playing in the dirt. Now that my pregnancy is over and my body is feeling more normal than it has in 9 months I want …
Nature Braving the Cold
In the past few weeks we have had incredible ups and downs in temperature. Since about the 8th of November it’s been mostly down, way down. The week before it was in the 60s and 70s and then January came out of nowhere. Nights have been down in the 20s and our heating system in …
Why I Joined the National Arbor Day Foundation
Ever since I was a little girl I have loved trees. My father’s house is on a four acre lot that was pretty much naked when he bought it save for the house and the barn. He had a pond put in and over the years has planted hundreds of trees. Evergreens like Blue Spruce …