Kalen left for work after lunch and I watched out the window for a few more minutes, thinking about how the bees were a much more compelling blog topic than the New Year roundup I had planned. I knew I would never get any good pictures from my living room, though, between Pippin's nose art... Continue Reading →
It's after Thanksgiving now, which means it's officially acceptable for me to upgrade autumn things for winter things, but it also means that I'm in that post-holiday turkey-induced slump where I don't have much energy or motivation to trudge up to the attic and dig out the Christmas decorations, so I'm just going to write... Continue Reading →
I still haven't gotten used to having all my plants inside for the winter which is good because it means I actually remember to water them. As I watered them this weekend, I noticed that two of my succulents have buds on them, which is exciting. I don't want to name the ones that have... Continue Reading →
We've officially had the first frost of the year which means I had to put on my big girl pants and accept that summer is really and truly over. I woke up this morning checked the weather to find that it was 20 degrees Fahrenheit (that's -6 Celsius to the rest of the world). I'm... Continue Reading →
Okay, that's a pretty grandiose title for what I'm sure is a pretty middle-of-the-road post, but here we go anyway. I enjoy the plants I grow in my yard, but gardening has been a learning process to be sure. Adding basic irrigation to our landscaping with a DIY kit was a real game changer. It... Continue Reading →
We had to have our fence repaired. One of the major selling points for this house when we purchased it was the fenced yard for Pippin. The fence, like so much of the rest of the house, wasn't pristine, but Pippin has never tried to escape and even if he did, he would need a... Continue Reading →
I don't typically do social media trends, but sometimes when I'm writing for Quid Facis, I look back through my photo library for pictures that are relevant to whatever I'm writing, and I find pictures that I took a while ago and they're the kinds of things I want to share, but they're old. So... Continue Reading →
I only have one draft post in the works and I'm not ready to post it, so I'm really feeling the crunch of "Aah! What am I gonna write next? I need to be writing!" Usually I sweat about it for a couple hours and then something happens and I go, "Hey, I can write... Continue Reading →
No, not that "the birds and the bees." In preparing to write this anecdote about the literal birds and actual bees in my back yard, I briefly paused to research where that inane euphemism comes from and even with the little information I found, it seems at best a horribly inefficient explanation of reproduction. Accurate... Continue Reading →
I first encountered trumpet vine many years ago riding my bike on the Katy Trail in central Missouri. The Katy Trail is a recreational trail that has been established along the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad and goes across the state from Clinton to Machens. In the hot, muggy summer, tendrils of trumpet vine creep onto the... Continue Reading →
