Ingalls

It’s official.  Our household is finally complete.  As of Saturday night, a garden gnome has taken up residence in our yard.
His name is Ingalls, and he hitched a ride here in a housewarming gift bag from our good friends Jim and Alyson*.  Rosy of cheek and blue of eye, he’s surprisingly well-mannered for a gnome, [...]

The Plant Terminator

I have a black thumb.
I kill things.  Growing things.  Green growing things.
I don’t mean to, but there it is.  My house is the horticultural equivalent of the Bates Motel.
Plants occasionally check in, green and leafy, bursting with all the mysterious power of burgeoning life, only to check out weeks or, in tragic cases, mere days [...]