On the left is lettuce Feb. 14, after it was thinned. On the right, the lettuce this morning.
I’m not giving up on my lettuce, but I am starting to wonder if it will ever get big enough to eat. Planted it way back in December. Continue reading
I’m happy to report that both the lettuce and my matthiolas made it through the last few nights of really cold weather. I’ve been covering them at night for the last week or so (one night, it got down to 18), and on Friday and Saturday I kept them covered all day, as well. I was able to move the lettuce onto the covered patio, but not before the tarp was coated in ice on Saturday. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem any worse for wear, although it’s certainly not growing. Continue reading
I can’t wait to get this farmhouse style hutch refinished and back into my house.
There are a number of things I didn’t bring from Wisconsin because I didn’t think I’d have much use for them in Texas. Snow shovels. Game them to family in Wisconsin. Snow boots. Gave ’em to Goodwill. Door/window draft snakes? Ditto. But as you can hear in the video below (or at http://tinyurl.com/pf9xol8), I should have kept the door snakes. Seems you don’t have to have an old house to have a drafty one. Continue reading
It was 27 degrees this morning (wind chill temperature was 21) when daughter left the house to walk to the bus stop. Do you think she had a coat on?
“Mom, I’ve got a sweatshirt in my bag if I get cold,” she said. “I’ll be fine.”
So tell me again, why exactly is it that teens won’t wear coats? Continue reading
