Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 47
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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 46
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which still has barely had a frost yet this season.)
fly-by-posting: 2025/11/16 (w/pics)
I climbed a mountain for my birthday! and on purpose this time (which is a lot more fun than the other way). (Okay, so we hiked a mountain for my birthday, but with a 3200 ft elevation gain, I feel like I’m allowed to classify that as ‘climbed’.)
Roses Round-up 2025
So! November has come and it is time for the Showing of the Roses! This was a really weird year for my garden. It started with a positively luxuriously wet spring, wherein simply everything was green. But that then evolved into the usual Hot and Dry Summer, which was further compounded by my being away and not watering for large swaths of that time. And then we’ve had an exceptionally mild fall, but I think most of the plants were…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 45
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which still isn’t sure whether cooler temperatures are supposed to be happening around now, or not.)
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 44
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Lovely and sunlit.)
fly-by-posting: 2025/10/29
…so, at the moment turning on my bathroom fan sounds like I’ve just started up a lawn-mower over my head. So subtle!
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 43
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which is feeling a bit temperamental.)
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 42
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where it is windy and very October-y.)
fly-by-posting: 2025/10/19 (w/pic)
Last weekend I spent 5 hours patching a bedsheet. Yes, I know, my intense party lifestyle astounds. To be fair, I hadn’t intended to spend 5 hours at it, but I’d already patched this sheet a lot over the years, and it needed something of an overhaul to hope I could get it to limp along longer than just one or two more cycles. Here’s a picture of one section of it, on my side of the bed. Have I…