Yesterday, I did something that I’ve been putting off. If you read my blog regularly, you know we’ve been cleaning out in anticipation of moving later this year. Sometimes cleaning out is easy. You look at something and think, why did I keep that piece of sh_t? Or, sometimes cleaning out is hard. We all…
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Is this the Start of a Busy Season?
Could February be the start of our busy season? Maybe! Today we took the first step towards a big move! We had a real estate agent come and appraise our home. We’ve lived here since 2007 making a move within our town from a suburban subdivision lot to a larger, 3.25-acre lot on the edge…
Holiday Cactus Resource on TpT
Few probably know that I have some classroom resources on the Teachers Pay Teachers website. My user name there is Garden Club Lessons. I taught an after-school garden club for 13 years at the elementary school my boys attended. For the most part, I researched topics and then developed my own lessons. It’s not anywhere…
Silent Sunday: Hibiscus
Today is Silent Sunday. It is a day when I only post my own photographs on a theme of my choosing. The first two sets of photos are from hibiscus plants in my parent’s yard blooming recently. The last set of photos feature a hibiscus “tree” that I owned for several years. Several Christmases ago,…
Slice of Life: Squawks and Screams
Yesterday, I caused two young robins to fledge! It wasn’t intentional but set off a round of squawking from the mother bird and the two nestlings as well as a few screams from me! I was innocently watering my front porch plants and needed to turn the water timer to a manual setting. I heard…
Monarch Update: July 2021
As of leaving for our cabin on June 29th, I had only seen one monarch egg on milkweed in the field behind our house. Three or four monarch butterflies had flown through our yard, but as of this date, I had not seen any larvae or caterpillars. I know that less than fifty miles away,…
Slice of Life: Caractacus Potts Strikes Again!
It was 1968. I was five. And, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was THE movie to see! If you are of a younger sect and never seen this movie, a musical, I would highly recommend it. The incomparable Dick Van Dyke stars at the nutty, inventor-single father of two young children growing up in a Windmill…
Both Yards: Fifteen Minutes A Day
Our yard is starting to look beautiful, as it does mid-summer. We’ve been fortunate to have owned three properties in Wisconsin, all with good sized yards. One of these is our cabin, “up north” that sits on a lake. Most of that 2 acre lot is wooded. We’ve never lived there as a primary residence,…
Resources for Pollinator Gardens
Planting for pollinators is currently all the rage! And, rightly so, we need our pollinators more than ever even as their populations have declined. The reason for this decline is multi-factorial. Contributing factors are habitat loss, competition of non-native species, pesticide use, climate change, and disease. Stabilization or reversal of pollinator population losses are essential…
Silent Sunday: What’s Blooming in My Yard
Today is Silent Sunday – a day when I offer my own photography without words. All photos are copyrighted by Carol Labuzzetta. There is no permission to duplicate in any form without prior permission. Thank you!