Punk Gardener

All yesterday I was pleading with the clouds, “open up, let it go… slow at first please or it’ll all be wasted as run off…”
& lo, for once the contrarian CenTex weather god took pity on gardeners.
We sure could use more tho…
*looks up hopefully*.
I saw a cotton tail on my way to get the mail [...]

Red, White & Grew – Victory Gardens and More!: This Letter Came in the Mail Last Week

City of Austin – Austin Climate Protection Program

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Congressman Earl Blumenauer is my kinda guy

Bicycle Friendly: Commuting with a Congressman : NPR

Since I’ve made a commitment to myself to buy second hand whenever possible, if I must buy at all, this makes me very very happy. If you don’t know about *Savers* stores for second hand wearables & small appliances, you may wish to check out their site & see if there’s a *Savers* [...]

More good news.
I’m happy to learn that oak galls are not that harmful to the trees:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN022
I’ll be happier come Fall when I can get the dead wood pruned & the trees inspected tho.
aaaaaaaaaaaaand… the peach that was showing no signs of life & even had some withered branches? It’s sprouting leaves & new growth, and [...]

Buying a house, or even buying property that someone once tended is a surprise grab bag of goodies.
When we moved to our not yet named Fig Tree Cottage lot last Jan., I noted the stumps of trees that had been razed so the last home that was here could be towed out. I couldn’t [...]

Organic farm’s wells going dry as water competition stiffens