animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

trimmed

Ideal Tree Service finally showed up today. I guess this has been a busy summer for trimming trees. They trimmed two oaks in the front yard and a maple in the back. I’m really happy with the job they did. If you’re looking for someone in the Johnstown area, I …

tomatoes!

If nothing else, my garden is doing really well this year. The past couple of years, I’ve had issues with my tomato plants (usually they are on their way out by this point in the season), but they are doing really well this year. I bought a number of disease-resistant …

garden time

I was a little behind this year due to the rainy weather, but I finally finished getting my garden in today (vegetables, herbs, and flowers are all in the ground). Now, the never ending cycle of weeding can commence. We still have to plant flowers at the office, but that …

fall leaves

We have a couple of oak trees in our front yard that always drop their leaves super late so there’s never an opportunity to rake them in the fall. I’ve been chipping away at them ever since the weather improved, and I’m happy to say that I was able to …