My best friend grew up in India. She's invited me to go to India several times over the last 23 or so years, and I still haven't done it. However, I have visited several temples with her in Colorado (Denver: plan on attending Sunday evening for the feast they serve. Castle Rock: this is a … Continue reading Personal Thoughts: A Christian’s View Of Another Religion
So. Yeah. Bad issue for me this year. I usually spray round up outside, in the play yard area. I have to hit it about three times a season. Last year I had issues with my sprayers and I only got the area sprayed once. Now, with my late start this spring (because of illness) … Continue reading Recovering A Gravel Area From Weeds
Fig tree is full of ripening figs! (I think this is an unnamed fig someone bought at a big box store. I got a start about ten years ago while walking in my neighborhood.) It isn't a super high quality fig, but it does provide a nice screen between me and my less than stellar … Continue reading Figs, wonderful figs!
The most expensive part of my garden is the city water that we're on. Our city water is piped in. The aquifer that our land is over does not have good water. We're near an air force base, started in the 1930's and I wonder if over the years, that aquifer has been polluted from … Continue reading Watering In High Heat
Ahhhh. Another book of poetry from the late, great, Leonard Cohen. Absolutely, my favorite contemporary poet. This book is hard to get a hold of. It's not in print anymore and pristine hardcovers are hundreds of dollars. Since we are quite a ways from his passing the paperback book prices have gone down: https://amzn.to/3Y1577B I … Continue reading Leonard Cohen
There are so many things to discover on the land in the Rocky mountains. Indian prayer tree. Ute Indians lived in these mountains. This is an Indian prayer tree on my mom's property. There are several categories of Ute Indian prayer trees. Read all about them here: https://www.castlepinesconnection.com/ute-indian-prayer-trees/ From what I've researched: This one is … Continue reading Life In The Rocky Mountains
If you are in a position to look at a device to help you make tomato paste or sauce, seed different fruits and remove skins, do I have some advice for you! I have made paste from tomatoes before. I used to own a Foley food mill and used it regularly. (Like: an original Foley … Continue reading Tomato Paste
I have never been to the hot springs in Colorado. I didn't know much about them. My best friend and her partner took my mom and I out to the springs in Moffat, Colorado. We skipped all of the lower temperature pools and got into the hottest one they had. Apparently, we were brave because: … Continue reading Fun In The Hot Springs
I'm enjoying a vacation. First time in twenty years that my kids and husband are not along for the ride. I came to visit my mom and my best friend. It's so beautiful up here where my mom lives. It's healing. My best friend, my mom and I are planning on going to the hot … Continue reading Out In Colorado
So, I ran some dripline around to the front yard, to the new pawpaws. Last night I installed the emiters. My youngest son was helping me by yelling over the fence, to tell me if the pressure was too high, and if I blew the line. First vacation sans husband and kids in twenty years. … Continue reading Pawpaw Update June 2024
After trying and trying for the last twelve years: and getting close to zero globe and beefsteak tomatoes, I went all in on plum (Roma) tomatoes. I've gotten Romas to produce before but I've never planted an entire bed with them. I fully expected to get a small supply from the six plants, that all … Continue reading I Withdraw My Assertion That I Cannot Grow Tomatoes
Weird little puff mushroom. I see these all over my yard in summer. Our store is open! Come see what we have!
I have heard a lot of things, from people I know, who were touting the new hydrogen gas infused, water craze. There's already hydrogen atoms in a water molecule, but this is free hydrogen atoms added to regular tap or filtered water. Some of the people I have heard glowing reviews from are: doctors and … Continue reading Hydrogen Water. Healthy Or Hype?
Have you seen this farming family's channel? Based out of Azerbaijan? No? What!? You must watch it! https://youtube.com/@country_life_vlog?si=adfBXIRFHZx0Wr8B I'm going to add photos of my food forest. Some of what they do is achievable. But even I am jealous of the variety of food they can grow. This is a pomegranate flower. I accidentally stumbled … Continue reading Crazy Good Link
I live in the South. Where I am: summer ends up getting really hot (above 100° Fahrenheit) with little to no rain for months at a time. In summer we get moisture that blows in from the Gulf of Mexico and that humidity (without rain) is a real problem. There are weeks where we don't … Continue reading Show Stopping, Southern Shrubs
I finally got all of the figs I froze out of the freezer and made wine. It had come down to: make wine or don't have room for this year's corn! I have the carboys out of the way, by my fireplace. Definitely don't need to use the fireplace right now! Figs thawing. So I … Continue reading Fig Wine
Well it's a day for a storm. The heat has been bullied back into its corner and I was free to do some work outside. The dripline I'm running is brown. It's really rubbery and easier to force onto the emiter posts. The downside of working in the rain is: the thick clay gets slippery … Continue reading I’m Digging In The Rain, Just Diggin’ In The Rain…
The heat was getting to the papaws. This is the north side of my yard and this area only gets about half a day of direct sunlight. It wasn't enough shade. I was noticing some thinning of the leaves and some stress that was showing up as lighter colors. Pawpaws before the heat set in. … Continue reading Pawpaw Follow Up
I created this bed in a traditional hugelkulter. Dug the trench, laid the logs, filled it in. Never again. I've been building my style of hugelkulter for over a decade. But I finally tried making one the way you are supposed to make it. I have a vole highway under these trees now. I'm setting … Continue reading When It Gets Too Hot For A Fruit Tree
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