Mary’s Pad

We have so much basil… we don’t know what to do with it. Just three plants in our back patio have yielded such a great harvest that we can’t wait to see how our other basil plants in the community plot do.
Two weeks ago we picked some and made basil pizza. The […]

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We got back from the garden about an hour ago. Today we harvested, and ate, our first radish! It tasted so good!

The garden is doing great, and the plants look amazing.

More pictures here.
We weeded and mulched, but the picture above was taken by Mike earlier in the afternoon, before the weeding […]

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Today we revisited the Kelly Drive loop. We walked 2.5 miles from the Art Museum to Strawberry Mansion, which is about double what we did last time. We set out earlier this time, leaving the house at 9am. We packed some snacks, two nalgene bottles filled with ice and water, and two books. […]

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This summer we’re doing it again - gardening. Last summer we did really well with our little back patio garden (in pots). We planted tomatoes, sage, cucumbers, and peppers… lots and lots of peppers, sweet ones and hot ones. With the exception of the tomatoes, everything else did exceptionally well. We had […]

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If you are anything like me, you constantly try to multi task. The advent of Windows was, for me, the beginning of my descent into multi tasking. And I use the word “descent” very deliberately. DOS was a wonderful program in a lot of ways. You could do one, and only one […]

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