Storm Preparations

It’s been quite lovely out lately. The ground has dried out, the sun has been shining, and we’ve only had intermittent showers of rain. Which has made me a little disappointed. You see, with all the rain we’ve been having, we went through a lot to protect  and prepare our home and garden from the […]



Garden Lessons

While weeding in the garden, Giant and I talked about how the weeds grew. Sometimes, all you see is a little green tip. It doesn’t look that harmful at all! But connected to that little green tip is a long and pernicious root, which will run over the whole garden if left unchecked: I told […]



Lessons from my Garden

Yesterday morning, a wonderful friend had offered to come out and help with one of my tasks: removing the carpet that had kept out weeds for me all summer. However, when I woke up Saturday morning and saw the snow covered garden, I was not hopeful. In fact, I felt rather dismal. I told my […]



Lessons from my Garden

I have found my Garden to be a wonderful place to learn. Not just about how to grow plants. I often find myself learning about things of a spiritual nature. Such as the nature of sin: My strawberry bed, left unweeded at the end of fall, was overtaken by the cold-tolerant weeds I’d thought were […]