What’sa Mater You?

Veggies are kicking in for the beginning of the Fall harvest and it is time to start making Ma's pasta sauce. What Maters Our tomatoes, as I have mentioned...lots...all ripen at pretty much at the same time as they are a Roma variety  for making sauce. I stare at the plants all summer as they...

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The first brush with Fall

A Fall storm slid through the gorge this weekend dropping temps ,bringing with it a nice light show for us as well as some needed rain. ChaChaChaChanges Ma , my better half , and I decided we didn't have much to do on our list and planned to just take it easy .... Then we...

The weekend of the studio revamp

Ma , my better half, decided that I was barking too often which made the decision to upgrade my computer a safe bet. When the comp got here, we realized that the " thought" of a rack mount computer compared to staring at it in my office/studio were two completely different mind sets... Hmmmm...... When...

Hummies , Lil Eden and more

With Fall coming ever closer , we sit in the mornings watching the hummingbirds that flock to Zen before the many that move on South take off  before the chill hits. The Hummers Some years we get more , some we get less , but the end of Spring through the beginning of Fall Allens...

The soft Summer days of Zen

Fall will be here shortly now as the days get shorter and even up here harvest is slowly but surely kicking in. The softer Summer This year we have been fortunate to have a less than metal melting temp average up here.. We ARE closer to the Sun y'all now right ? Our Groves all...

The Gullywasher

Friday eve a nice thundershower came through Zen as well as a big chunk of our state and the two around us . The lightning storm was spectacular ...and I remembered just AFTER it came through to grab my camera we were so enjoying the rain...Crap... Lighting was striking all around us including here on...

Shake Rattle and Roll

The week on Zen has been a wee bit on the dark side this week. Ma; my better half , has been having stomach troubles which hit hard this last weekend , though better than it was still not great. Monday morning I woke up sick , went to work and it got a lot...

Make the bad bug go away

With something eating the pepper plants outdoors and biting Ma indoors has most all twitchy crawly flying things on the hit list this week . Bzzzz It isn't bad enough for Ma to be eaten up by something somewhere around the place., we have no idea where or what, but then a dang yellow jacket...

Hummie and Lil Eden Gardens

Another week with the nursery herds hanging around the Homestead kept us entertained along with the Hummie Clan. Nice weather had us out in Hummie and Eden gardens . Hangin' in Hummie Hummie Garden was the first garden we put in once the New house was up. It all started with the solitary feeder I had...