DeKalb County, GA bans all outdoor water use I know there must be a better way to reduce water usage. Our family of four uses so little water compared to the “average” that this ban infuriates me. Our 40+ year old white oak tree is “stressed” according to the arborist, and it needs the soaker…
Author: GBK Gwyneth
shop til you drop
Why do I charge everything I buy? Because doing that is what makes it possible for me to say “Scotland, Here We Come!” Shop Till You Fly from the Washington Post Granted, we don’t go to the extremes that the people in the article did, but using our credit card is worth it for us!
Cat vs. Bird Dilemma
The cat has been sitting in one spot crying all day. When I went out to empty the dehumidifier into the plant containers, I heard some squeaking. Looking around, I found a little nest in my hanging fern, which is right above where the cat has been sitting all day. In the nest were at…
The Mommy Wars
Geeky Mom took the words right out of my mouth. I hope you’ll read her well-thought out comments on Ms. Hishnam’s op-ed piece. I certainly could not have said it better myself.
The Mommy Wars
As I am still in the middle of my review of Hyper-Parenting (on another blog…please email me if you are interested), I probably won’t get to my review of the Truth Behind the Mommy Wars by Miriam Peskowitz until next week. By then, the Washington Post article “Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms” may no…
Are You a Hyper-Parent? Am I?
I’ve just finished reading Hyper-parenting: Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too Hard? by Alvin Rosenfeld, MD, and Nicole Wise. Hyper-parenting includes “overscheduling” and “over enriching” our children, forcing us as parents to give up what is meaningful to us (other than our kids’ lives). The authors make the point that in a typical…
Blue Summer
Between my watering and the rain we got, the plants are all starting to look a bit healthier. We’re on restricted watering, so I have to water on Thursday even if I think there is a good chance it will rain Friday. It seems dumb, but restricted watering increases my usage of water.
flags
I caught these at the Scottish Festival we went to this past weekend.
lilies
Here’s one from our backyard.
volunteers
Clearing the ivy from the woods has allowed many other plants to grow. I did not plant these lilies; they just appeared. Last fall I cleared the area in which they grew, and I was so excited to see them appear this spring!
performance flowers
The girls got these flowers from their granmda after their dance performance the other night.
Where I Have Been II
It’s been a few days since I’ve posted. I spent the weekend in Chicago with some friends to see Ralph play his adult stuff. It was a fantastic weekend!
more flowers
It is a wonderful time of year for taking photos of flowers. I’m caught up finally, but headed out for another weekend away, so I’ll likely fall behind again on posting photos.
Purple Flower Power
I took this one at the Cincinnati Zoo.
where i have been
It’s been a few days since I’ve posted. We went off to Cincinnati to see Ralph’s World perform (yet again)! It was great fun, even if it was broiling hot.
Yellow Profusion
It’s been a few days since I posted. We’ve started some summer things, but haven’t finished up spring things, so there’s some double-duty going on here. I hope that I won’t have to skip daily photos again….but this weekend we’ll be on the road, so …
yellow for summer
How Do You Do?
This morning, I took the girls to a birthday party and then we drove to the cabin. Minutes after we had gotten settled in, it started to rain and then hail. I managed to sneak out in a small break of the storms to catch a couple photos, but nothing turned out very well.
Herb Garden
I need to get one of these herb garden-in-a-pots!
Provencal Time of Year
Every year around this time, when we can spend long hours outside, I get the urge to read my Provencal and Tuscan books and to cook meals I imagine we would eat if we were there. The girls cut flowers for our table and trimmed some of our rosemary for me to use in the…