April 2012
Your Friday Bullet Points For The End of April
Posted by on Friday, April 27, 2012 in - 2 comments
Did you miss these bullet points? Fridays have been hard lately. Or at least I have lost all imagination. I think that may be it. Or there are four to six kids in the house at any one time. I am liking the garden blogging. Gar-logging? I miss 2004. When poeple pretended blogging would change the …
Garden 2012: The Return Of The Risk Of Frost
Posted by on Sunday, April 22, 2012 in - 2 comments
We were fooled. Warm has been replaced by cold. Next week there is a risk of frost. Fortunately, we did not go too far down the road of planting. The peas are just taking their first peak above soil and the blue hubbard squash has been transplanted into pots that can be brought inside. Seeing as I …
Garden 2012: Today I Did Dig And Split The Rhubarb
Posted by on Saturday, April 14, 2012 in - 5 comments
Rhubarb is one of my favorite things. Spring food. Sour and astringent. It makes the years since childhood contract. A cup of white sugar into which a raw stem was rammed, the stalk chewed as if on a dare. Stewed rhubarb leading to the earliest bowel related humour at our table, pretend mad dashes …
Garden 2012: Peas Are In The Ground... Repeat... Peas Are...
Posted by on Monday, April 9, 2012 in - 2 comments
Easter long weekend saw an assault on nature or at least that sort of nature that exists in a mid-60s subdivision. We have great plans to eat where we did mow so the following tasks were undertaken: • ♦ • ugly basketball hoop with sun-rotted plastic base disassembled; • ♦ awkward juniper …
Now Twenty Years Since The Bosnian War Began
Posted by on Saturday, April 7, 2012 in - leave a comment
What a simple and strong tribute as reported on the BBC above. I have an odd three point connection to the Bosnian conflict as I lived in my former home of PEI when refugees were filtered through Canada's smallest province to acclimatize them to a new home. In 1998, I played on a PEI soccer team …
