Sustainable living in the great white North. December 10, 2015 by cdndirtbags. I was planning on beginning a photo series on the rock house build but a reader has prompted me in a different direction. What would you plan differently? Would you do bigger pods? .

A chronicle of an organic life. Since I visited Monticello, as I read, I can see the different rooms, furniture, and the gardens as they are mentioned.

They are situated in the back of the property and the land is elevated where they are. Unless I am back there I simply cannot see the wonderful things that are growing. Because of that, I like to have pots on the deck and flowers from the garden in the house. That way I can see things growing even if I am not back by the gardens.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Goodbye and good ridance 2014. The truth of the matter is that 2014 has been hard. There have been bright spots, but they have been so overshadowed by the hardness that sometimes it is hard to see them, to feel them, to remember them. 2013 seems so long ago. And all we can do is hope that somehow 2015 will be better than 2014 has been to us. The good news is that 2015 will be my last year in any portion of pregnancy.

I am now a mom to THREE sweet gardening girls! This year I am volunteering at a public elementary school garden, and working at a private after school gardening club! Hide and Seek with their baby sister.

GARDEN GRUMBLES and CROSS STITCH FUMBLES and BIRDING BUMBLES. Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Starting off with the bright green leaves of the Elderberry - the Black-headed Grosbeaks will eat all the berries before they even ripen. Oregon Junco on a Hawthorne - the tree is beginning to bud. A clump of Iris tenax.