Category Archives: Gardening

GARDEN NOTES

Posted on May 25, 2011 by snowbirdredux

New day.  New garden.  Aah!  I feel like the proverbial kid in the candy store.  Time after time I have eked out a garden armed only with grim determination and a much younger back than I now possess. Often in … Continue reading →

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DAY SIX, SEVEN, AND EIGHT

Posted on May 24, 2011 by snowbirdredux

WE ARE HERE!  However it has been a few days in limbo – without phone or internet – and only a foam pad on the floor and this and that to make the merest semblance of a home.  An odd … Continue reading →

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ALMOST THERE

Posted on May 14, 2011 by snowbirdredux

Today I re-displayed the garage sale stuff.  I know, I know, you’re supposed to plunk out the goods – higgely piggely, and what does it matter?  Well it matters to me.  My job description at the Post Ranch Mercantile did … Continue reading →

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MOVING MEDITATION

Posted on May 11, 2011 by snowbirdredux

I have been preparing for the weekend moving sale. It is NOT a pretty picture! Well – you get the picture.  My friend, Melanie was always talking me into having garage sales with her and it was always the last … Continue reading →

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ANOTHER RESPITE

Posted on April 27, 2011 by snowbirdredux

Today I’m crying “Uncle” and in the sense that I GIVE UP for today –  the packing troll has won and I am done.  Exhausted.  Finished.  A wreck.  And in another sense I could use an “Uncle Ernie”, that familial … Continue reading →

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ROSE COCKTAIL

Posted on April 16, 2011 by snowbirdredux

ROSE COCKTAIL It was when we lived in Ferndale in northern California that I REALLY fell in love with old fashioned roses.  They seemed just the ticket in that National Monument of a Victorian village. And it was there, in … Continue reading →

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UP AND RUNNING

Posted on April 16, 2011 by snowbirdredux

Thankfully up and running again. And also up and running in the garden and in the cupboards.  Castenada Lane has not been sold (yet) but will be leased for now to a couple who   appear to be just the ticket.  … Continue reading →

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DOROTHEA

Posted on April 11, 2011 by snowbirdredux

If I had to choose two roses – well maybe six or seven – to replant on Mt. Faith in Minnesota, it would certainly include my lovely Paul’s Himalayan Musk that I wrote about in a previous post, and also … Continue reading →

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BEST BELOVED FORGOTTENS

Posted on April 8, 2011 by snowbirdredux

Passionate gardeners are always looking for the thrill – the ancient species  to resurrect, a “sport” that invented itself and magically appeared, the rare, the bizarre, the anything but usual.  There’s something to be said for the tried and the … Continue reading →

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THE HIMALAYAN MUSK

Posted on March 24, 2011 by snowbirdredux

What with the peach blossoms and the crabapples and the flowering quince, I must admit I’m getting restless for the roses. I know I’m getting ahead of Mother Nature here but it’s been on my mind and rather than continually … Continue reading →

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