This year we have lots of them:
I picked several pounds of these, destemed them and washed them:
Using a potato masher, I smashed them up as best as possible, then put them on the stove. Brining them to a low simmering boil for 10 minutes, I mashed them again. Then, I strained them through a metal [...]
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Grapes!
Is there somebody buried in my front yard?
Back in the day, way back in the day, when I was just a young lad of fourteen or fifteen, one of my jobs was mowing the grass at a local church. The Church had a cemetery behind it, which we also mowed. The one thing that sticks out in my mind is grave maintenance. [...]
Yard Cleanup
The weather turned nice last week, prompting the grass to start growing. Since we moved in in 2004, I have done nothing to encourage my grass to grow, yet every year it grows vigorously starting about the second week in April. Sometimes, if it is a dry summer, by August things slow down.
All in all, [...]
Edible landscaping
We have spent some amount of time fixing up the yard. I think the worst of it was removing all the asphalt around the back of the house. What a terrible way to make a patio.
As a part of our long term goals for the house, landscaping is somewhere in the middle of the list. [...]
When Deer Attack
This is the Peach tree I planted in the front yard last summer. It did great all summer, putting out lots of new growth and adding almost 18 inches to its height.
Then I noticed this a few months ago:
It is a deer rub from last fall, bucks rubbing all the fuzz off of their [...]
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