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In the garden: pepper
This is the largest pepper I have ever grown (in the 3 whole years I have been gardening – ha!). I attempted to grow peppers for my first 2 years by seed and was never successful, so this year I purchased 2 plants (a chocolate and an orange pepper), planted the seedlings in containers by […]
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In the garden: Sweet peas…
These sweet peas just came into bloom (that is how awful our weather has been in Vancouver this spring/summer). They are in the window box on the kitchen window so I can see them from inside while prepping dinner or baking – so pretty and sweet (they are obviously aptly named). The pinks really stand […]
Not sure this could even be considered a small batch harvest… maybe a teeny, tiny harvest? However tiny, this luscious handful of berries rocked last night’s ice cream dessert, so there are certainly no complains in the (big!!) taste department.
It is pissing rain Vancouver. PISSING. I can feel my autumn instincts trying to kick in. Suddenly, I crave hot chocolate paired with a good book, or to bake dinner rolls or corn bread or at least a bunch of cookies, with spaghetti or maybe chili for dinner… then knitting a blanket or sweater in […]
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Joanne’s Birthday Socks
A very lovely friend of mine turned 30 last week [ah, 30 I remember you fondly, as you blew by many, many years ago] and I wanted to help her celebrate this milestone in style, so I knit her some socks: And last Monday, in a brief sunny break, we sipped iced tea in the […]
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Hibiscus in Bloom
Last month I treated myself to a pretty hibiscus plant–I have always wanted one–I placed the plant in a southwest-facing dining room window and it has rewarded me with bloom after bloom.
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Nectarine Tree in Bloom
It is a grey and very wet day in Vancouver this morning. Thank goodness it was lovely Saturday morning when I snapped photos of the 2-year-old  Golden Prolific Dwarf nectarine tree, because I seriously need this to believe it is actually spring today:
LOCATION: home office, Vancouver, BC, Canada WEATHER: Rain – currently pouring – though seconds ago the sun attempted a break through. TODAY’S TO DO LIST: flesh out new idea for AFTER THE VIRUS prequel **Note: can it be called a prequel if the storylines eventually overlap? Will need to check into that, eventually, if the […]
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