Garden

Spring has sprung. Love, sweet bird-songs (and pollen) fill the air. Yep, it’s that time of year again. The time when cold winter melts into warmer spring. Days start getting longer.

You have a blank canvas of a backyard and want to host all the friends on the weekend.

Welcome to the saga where my (and your?) identity shifts from black thumb to green thumb. But not without bug bumps & fungal bruises along the way. Join us as we ever so gradually forsake the grocery store produce section for our backyard blissful bounty. …

You know how they say that a first birthday party isn’t really for the baby, it’s for the parents? Yeah, that’s one true statement. We had Canaan’s first birthday party a couple weeks ago. It featured about the least “kid-like” food ever and most of …

Round 2: Let’s Get Down to the Nitty Gritty (In 1950s male announcer voice, spoken far too quickly for modern American intelligibility) Previously on The Journey of the Thumb… Austin commits involuntary plantslaughter. Wildlife witnesses prosecute. SeedEaters (aka birds & squirrels & bugs, oh sigh) …

The Journey of the Thumb Ever been accused of having a “black thumb“? Likely it was unintelligibly uttered under granny’s breath to your progenitress (your mom) at the last backyard family luncheon you hosted. Allow me to elaborate. It’s when you wholeheartedly attempt grow photosynthetic …