Month: December 2008

  • Snow Day!!!

    Since moving to the great state of Oregon I have received two things I just never had in Illinois.  Land for a garden and snow days.  Before I moved to Oregon, snow was not a big deal, hardly an event.  You want snow, Illinois will give you snow.  Snow like no body’s business.  Illinoisans have…

  • Yummy Dinner from the Garden

    We harvested several food crops this year.  Strawberries, blueberries, carrots and tomatoes.  We also grow rosemary, thyme, oregano and sage, which I guess are considered herbs and not food, but since I eat them and ‘food crop’ sounds more impressive I have declared them food crops for my garden.  Onions were a dismal failure, but…