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The marriage test created by George W. Crane, MD was floating around the internet not to long ago. Here’s your chance to see how your rate. Some of the questions are pretty hilarious such as “Wears Red Nail Polish” and “Squeezes Toothpaste from the Top” (both are demerits by the way). 16 As a 1930s…

I’ve been in Anaheim and staying at the only hotel without free wireless for it’s guests. My work was holding a conference for over a thousand people. Which meant long days running around in high heels and eating bad catering. But I am happy to be back at home and I am starting to spiffy…

I tried a month ago I tried to grow some new seedlings. I started with six seedlings using coconut coir medium and my remaining six jiffy peat pellets. After two weeks only two of the jiffy pellets had developed seedlings while the coconut coir developed five. I did notice that the coconut was less likely…

We are gearing up for a road trip to the Sasquatch Festival up at the Gorge in Washington. Along the way we will be stopping and spending the day in Portland, Oregon. Does anyone have any recommendations? Any suggestions on the must see places would be much appreciated. I’ll be bringing my camera and sharing…

We dog sat our friend’s Jack Russel Terrier this past weekend. Her favorite activities were barking at the larger dogs, chasing a bright red plastic ball, and snacking on our mint plants. I didn’t mind since it’s not dangerous for pets and the mint can always use a trim.

I grew three German Chamomile plants this year. The first plant I started indoors and it has small flowers and it’s stretching along the ground and spreading out like a ground cover, the second was started outdoors and it has larger flowers and it’s growing nice and tall, the third is in a less sunny…

Here are one of my sunflowers. This one in particular is working on growing it’s huge flower. This is a Mammoth sunflower and it’s expected to be over 8 feet tall with large flowers. If all goes well the flower will bloom and when it dies it will create delicious sunflower seeds.

Wow, these guys took forever to bloom. I pretty much had given up on them, when at the last minute I transplanted them from their comfy pots into the ground. Now they are ready to bloom. This is my first year trying to grow Freesia. It comes in multiple colors. The first batch to bloom…

Our roses are starting to bloom. Here are a few photos of the recent flowers. Now if I could just get rid of all of the aphids they attract. I settled on just shooting them off with a good spray of water. But they magically return in great numbers.