Posted in growing challenge, gardens on Apr 21st, 2008
In late April!
So not normal for around here. Between the weather and traveling for work I’m starting to think we’ll never get the garden in. If my travel schedule weren’t conspiring against me, I likely would have put up a cloche last weekend so that I could get some things seeded in the garden. But […]
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Posted in personal on Apr 18th, 2008
I’m here on the show floor having a cup of coffee and a muffin, stealing a little mental break before the day starts (it’s 7:45 am as I’m writing). It’s been a jam packed couple of days - these shows always are - and my whole body is tired.
Last night we walked from one end […]
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Posted in personal on Apr 15th, 2008
I’m in Vegas this week for work. I got in this afternoon and I’m here until Saturday morning. It’s been almost a decade since the last time I was here. And yeah, it’s pretty much just like I remember.
I flew through LAX and so came in on a prop plane and got a nice long, […]
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Posted in personal, gardens on Apr 13th, 2008
There are weekends that make you long to go back to work on Monday. This was almost one of them.
Saturday was one of those gorgeous days that Seattleites don’t tell outsiders about. People that don’t live here don’t know that we sometimes get 80 degree days in April. For those of us that do live […]
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Posted in misc on Apr 12th, 2008
I realized the other day that I like it when blogs let me either subscribe via email, or easily let me add them to my feed aggregator. Don’t you?
So I did a little monkeying around on the backend here and finally figured out how to make it work on my blog.
So now you can subscribe […]
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Posted in chickens on Apr 11th, 2008
No matter what size or age they are, my chickens like to snuggle up to sleep. It’s something that always surprises me - this need they have to be close together, and how they each make sure their needs are met.
Take the big girls. Agnes is the smallest and get cold the easiest. She likes […]
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Posted in personal on Apr 10th, 2008
My mother, Linda Lemke, the nordic walking queen, will be on CBS’s The Early Show Saturday morning. She’s representing Leki and talking about the benefits of Nordic Walking. She’ll be on sometime between 8:00 and 8:30 am Eastern.
So get up early, make some coffee and cheer her on. She’s super excited and so are […]
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