When Life Gives You Succulents


I’ve neglected this blog as badly as I’ve neglected this strawberry pot of succulents — the one that’s now crowded with ferns and weeds. You would think a quarantined person would have time to keep up with a weed-filled strawberry pot and, of course, a blog.

Apparently, not always.

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Bloomin’ Update 58: My Garden Doesn’t Need Me


My garden doesn’t need me.

Oh, it uses me — for watering and weeding and such — but it really doesn’t need me.

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When Life Gives You Coconuts. . .


Coconuts

If it’s one thing I have plenty of, it’s coconuts. In my tiny yard, there are 12 coconut-producing palms — and because coconut palms are always producing coconuts, you could say that I have a lovely and large bunch of them.

But when is a coconut not a coconut?

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