Some of you may have heard the town I live in -- Columbus, Wisconsin -- was hit hard by a storm early Monday morning. Thankfully, there were no tornadoes, no deaths and no injuries. Just straight line winds that the National Weather Service estimated blew through here at 90 to 110 mph. I don't mean …
Terrarium plants are growing; cat grass, not so much
As I was watering my terrarium the other day (for the second time ever), I noticed something new. There are little green shoots coming out of the plant that I call Faux Peas (on the left). It's GROWING, people! GROWING! As are the other plants in the terrarium, albeit slowly. For some reason, I thought …
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Marrying a new pot to an old plant stand
Please excuse the lack of blog posts in recent weeks. I was sucked into the black hole that is my basement and, much like Kimmy Schmidt and the Indiana Mole Women, have only recently emerged back into the real world. In my case, my subterranean exile was self-imposed; I was cleaning, sorting, purging and organizing …
Planting a terrarium
While cleaning and organizing in my basement recently, I found an old fish bowl/terrarium that I had picked up at a thrift store a couple years ago. I had always intended to set up a little nature scene in it, but I never found any houseplants that were small enough, so the terrarium languished, empty, …
Spring | Going back to the porch
One of my favorite rites of spring is the annual Return of the Patio Furniture. In our household, we celebrated the occasion last weekend. Over the winter, our chairs head south (to the storage space under the porch), partly to protect them from the elements, but mostly so the deck is clear of obstructions when …
The asparagus fern is always greener
I bought a package of cat grass a while back and finally got around to starting it last Saturday. (Yes, the picture above is of grass that was planted just six days earlier.) I found the seeds in the pet department at WalMart for a couple dollars. Inside the package is a small bag of …