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Tag Archives: gardening
This New Year
I’m full up of emotions these days. There’s a good deal of uncertainty floating around our life. This can be exciting, or terrifying, or both. It’s hard to accept uncertainty; to stop trying to figure things out. To sit with uncomfortable … Continue reading
Posted in Life in the Garden, Life with Kids, My Garden
Tagged bulbs, gardening, New Year, planting, simplicity, Uncertainty
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A Home for our Beloved Blueberry
Our new house is overwhelming me with its lack of compliance; it refuses to fit our things in its rooms and spaces in a sensible, straight-forward manner. The boy’s dresser is now the bathroom storage, our dresser is the sideboard/office … Continue reading
Posted in Life in the Garden, My Garden
Tagged Blueberry, blueberry bush, Garden, gardening, house, soil, transplanting
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Moving news
Life has been full on since spring (and by spring I mean March – as a Northern Albertan I was happily confounded by this). I started a part-time job that seems to have left me full-time exhausted/overwhelmed. Since May long … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Contentment, Life in the Garden, My Garden
Tagged Alberta, forest, gardening, Gardens, moving, Vancouver Island
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Plant Rescue Squad Blueberry Update!
Three days ago I ate my very first fresh blueberry. Ever. (this may not be true. We farmed near Abbotsford until I was eight years old where blueberries are prolific – but I can only recall eating blackberries. A lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Life in the Garden, Life with Kids, My Garden
Tagged Blueberries, Blueberry, Deer, gardening, transplanting
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Asparagus for the Soul
There has been a lot going on lately. So much that I don’t even know where to start. There’s been miraculous, awful, and everywhere in between. It seems like a time for Profound and Insightful Reflection. Seems like, but isn’t. … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Contentment, Life in the Garden, My Garden
Tagged Asparagus, gardening, Gardens, joy, simplicity, Wendell Berry
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The week in pictures
Posted in Life with Kids
Tagged celebrations, gardening, motorcycle, spring, spring fever
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If you can’t take the deer out of the garden, take the garden out of the deer
As we anticipated moving to Vancouver Island, I was very excited about the gardening possibilities afforded to me by a zone 8 (or at least 7a) climate. Upon arrival however, it became apparent that the unfenced acreage was gardened primarily … Continue reading
Posted in Life in the Garden, Life with Kids, My Garden
Tagged Deer, Edmonton, gardening, Mental health, Vancouver Island
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