I started gardening in raised beds last year. Special thanks to my neighbor Terry who built them for me! This year I’m adding four more beds. Simple raised bed tips: 1) Use screws, not nails, to connect the boards. They’ll hold together longer. 2) Brace the corners. Before filling with 1/3 peat moss-1/3 vermiculite-1/3 mixed […]
Category Archives: Creative Play
Nothing like a True Friend
A dear friend passed away a few weeks ago. I wrote about Martha in early May (See May 6, 2010). By coincidence, kismet, or simply how things have a way of working out, about the time of Martha’s passing, my octogenarian mom lent me the book, A Walk by the Sea, written by Joan Anderson, […]
Masters in Action
Among the masters in my midst are Martha Nichols and Susan (Sue) Palmquist. Martha, an interior designer, is a longtime friend who has helped me make my successive homes more lovely than I could have done myself. Besides her skills in putting together all the design details, I call her the Color Empress. To see […]