animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

lumpy

Alice had a large growth removed from her lip a little over a year ago…and now it’s back. It’s like it came out of nowhere. I don’t know how that happens. She has not seen the vet about this yet as we’re not sure what we’re going to do about …

fungus among us

My tomatoes were looking good…until yesterday. The fungal problem I’ve seen (for a number of years running) has returned. It’s no wonder with all of the rain we’ve been getting. So, once again, I won’t be getting many tomatoes from the garden. The good news is that we planted some …

the weeds

I haven’t been able to spend much time in the yard/garden these past few weeks due to all of the rain we’ve been getting (nor did we get to do any additional Thunder activities last weekend–Saturday was awful!) and now everything is overrun with weeds. I always say that the …

still alice

This was a really great movie. In it Julianne Moore played a linguistics professor who develops early onset Alzheimer’s. Not surprisingly, she won an Academy Award for her portrayal–it was that good. It’ll have you Googling the symptoms of early onset Alzheimer’s for sure (if not, you’re a better hypochondriac …

thunder in the valley?

More like rain in the valley. We did manage to squeeze in some activities between the raindrops, but it’s not looking good for the rest of the weekend. On Wednesday night, we went to Richland Bike Bash. This was our first time there. I thought it was surprisingly busy for …