Winter is coming

Winter is coming

Six more weeks till Winter. Or so the story goes told by Alaskan Natives and sourdoughs alike.  When the fireweed has bloomed all the way to the top, we have six more weeks till the snow flies.  So far this break up and then into summer, we’ve had some successes….and some failures.   That’s pretty typical though.  The garden is doing well but could be doing better thanks to the late

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Caring for our small water garden

Never before have I been responsible for caring for a outdoor water garden.  I mean, really, in Military housing, such a thing would be considered to be an extreme luxury so when we moved into our new home and I found myself the owner of a lovely, 1500 gallon pond, complete with a water fall, I found myself a little overwhelmed.  What do I do with such a thing? At

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