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Hi Mom!

On 12/05/2013 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized16 Comments

Happy Mother's Day!We celebrated the way we do every year -- by doing precisely nothing to mark the day. However, the weekend was full of nice surprises. It poured rain yesterday, for instance, and I took a nap with Kaya. It felt so decadent to be lying in bed listening to the rain and dozing …

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In My Kitchen, October 2012

On 07/10/201207/10/2012 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized28 Comments

The clouds had been gathering all day, but when the first fat raindrops began to fall, it felt like a surprise. Within about five minutes, the rain was coming down in sheets; Kaya and I were making dinner in the kitchen, and I wasn't sure how we were going to get it to the house …

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A glimpse of the sun

On 27/01/201227/01/2012 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized2 Comments

During the hot, dry months of summer I dream of rain, but it's hard to imagine that now. We've had a procession of wet, gray days, so when the sun came out this morning, it was intoxicating. Everything looked lovely. We had our one freezing week in January, so the semi-tropical plants are all withered …

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Rained out

On 18/12/2011 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized3 Comments

It was rainy on Friday, and since I had the car and was going to be driving everyone back to the garden, we decided that it might be better to see how things looked on Saturday. It was pretty demoralizing, so when we awoke to clearer weather on Saturday morning, I wasted no time in …

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