I love waking up on the weekend and looking outside at our vegetable garden to see how much it has grown over the past week while I was at work and out and about.I love to garden, and I made the decision to start teaching Baby Bird about gardening at 21 months old. It might [...]
We have had a rough start to our Spring/Summer here. I posted last week that I was able to get our garden in. I took the chance. I know Spring here can be volatile, but it had to go in on that day. I had that one day where my parents were visiting to watch [...]
If it wasn’t for Monday, I would have begged for a do-over for the long weekend! First, Papa Bird had to work on Saturday and Sunday and then it poured from Friday to Sunday – and it was cold. I had a meeting with some colleagues, then the rest of the rainy days were spent [...]
You can request to receive a free gardening guide sent to you from Burpee Home Gardens in the US. This offer is good for Canada and US only. When I ordered it there was a message saying that it is out of stock and they will rush to fulfill my request, so you may be [...]
Papa Bird and I have been in our new place for a month now. The house has had a lot of upgrades, but there is still more to be done. On the inside of the house we want to replace all of our bathroom vanities. They are all clean looking, but they have an early [...]
I thought today would be a good day to talk gardening. The temperature here in Edmonton is hovering right around zero, and we are in the middle of a snow storm that would make regular snow storms cry. This past weekend though, it was beautiful in the yard and when Baby Bird went down for [...]
A lot was accomplished around our house this weekend. Boxes were emptied and broken down for recycling. More of our house was organized and set up. And today I was able to spend some time setting up ‘my’ room. There is a den on the main floor and I am using it for my scrapbooking, [...]
So guess what? I’ve entered in to another contest online — groan! BUT… This one doesn’t require online voting — YAY! I entered in to the ‘So You Think You Can Garden?’ contest by CanadianGardening.com. The winner gets to blog for Canadian Gardening for 6 months, plus some other prizes. Me, I’d love the chance [...]