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Not All Jumbles are Equal- stream of consciousness -6/21/2025 This spring was a jumble in the garden. At the befining of May I picked up some kind of bug that kicked my butt for about four days. I could sit at the computer, so I was able to continue posting to the blog, but my …
I've been in the middle of a month-long workshop reorganization. It got to the point where I could no longer punt the job into the future. I went into the shop to get items that I knew were there, but they weren't where they were supposed to be. There was a sort of pent-up demand …
I've a list that I've been compiling for several months now. Let's call it what it is - "Lou's anti-depression list for winter." In our house, it's no secret that I fight the winter blahs. Or that the blahs have been getting deeper every winter recently. My dance card is filled with activities until January …
I don't have a lawn. I have a planting where a lawn used to be.
I have tried a variety of gardening methods over the years. I've finally settled on high raised beds. It's not just that my back, knees, and arthritic feet complain less. It's about post-glacial New England. I live on a hill composed mostly of gravel, sand, and rock left behind by the retreating ice sheets. Soil …
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I have had a history of favorite places, over the years. Way back when, before I left New York City, I had a favorite place in Van Cortlandt Park. It was a grove of tulip trees, and when I went for hikes, in what was actually an urban forest, I always made sure to walk …
It's springtime clean-up in the shop. Yes, that time of year when I relocate stuff, vacuum all the accumulated bandsaw dust, and find stuff that I looked for in August, but lost in June. In other words the shop get a good shake up. I have described my shop as ten pounds in a five …
At Bob and Chris's place Saturday was a get together jam session featuring whoever showed up. Bob and Chris' repertoire featured many Irish, Scottish and folk pieces which they sang to Bob's guitar accompaniment. I can still see them gazing loveingly into each other's eyes as they sang. Bob ultra serious and Chris with a …
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March 29 - Awe March is as changeable as February is awful. I might even go so far as to say that it is awe-full. I get tote buckets of sap into the kitchen and boil sap into syrup. Turning sap into syrup? That's a kind of awesome miracle when you think of it. I …
I tend to judge a garden by what it produces rather than by my opinions of the gardener's habits.
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