Jackie is Leaving the Garden. Good-bye.

                                                    
It’s time for me to close the garden gates. Another season has passed. And along with the gates, I’ll be closing this blog.
I have so enjoyed the time I’ve spent online, sharing parts of my life with you, and being able to share small parts of your lives.  
Never is a long time, so I won’t say [...]

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I’m a Rockin’ Girl Blogger! Velvet said so!

 Thank you, Velvet! Although I can’t say I know what a ‘rockin’ girl blogger’ is – I’m mighty proud to be one. Especially since I can count on one hand, the number of awards I’ve received as an adult. Let’s see….there was one for square dancing, and that one for “Nice Matters” and ….well, I [...]

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Brrrrr. Its time to tuck the tomatoes in at night.

It’s getting very chilly here at night. The average frost date in Spokane is October 10th, although there has been frost as early as September 7th, and as late as the end of November. Here on our hill, our temperatures are always 7 to 10 degrees cooler. It cools off faster up here at night, frost and [...]

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I’m not really in it for the bounty -

— and I didn’t even realize that until I was reading some blogs whereby gardeners are striving to be self sustained by their gardens.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m like a little kid when I come in from the garden with my pockets full of peas, or beans, or tomatoes. And I’m so damned proud of [...]

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A “Nice” Award. (Believe it or not!)

                                                 
My blogger buddy, Stacy, of Never Wanted Nothin’ More, awarded me this “Nice Matters” award. Thank you, Stacy. I’m deeply appreciative, although I feel very undeserving.
                The words that go with this award are as follows:
“This award is for those bloggers who are nice people; good blog friends, and those that inspire good feelings and [...]

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Postcards from 1946.

We lost our mother when we were young, so the few pictures I have of her are very precious to me. I guard them with my life. My mother and father divorced when I was eight, and I only saw him once (when I was 16) before he died. We don’t really have anything that belonged to  my mother, [...]

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I’m too busy; Miss Kitty will fill in.

I feel just like Betty Crocker this morning! I have tomatoes roasting/drying in the oven on cookie sheets. I have one pan on the stove, in which is simmering my very own pears for preserves. (Or maybe pear compote if it doesn’t set correctly). And a second large pan is simmering one of T’s favorite meals: german sausage, green [...]

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Home from Coulee.

We’re home from our Coulee Corridor trip. We had a great time. My sister, Caryl, went with us, and my sister, Jean, came down from Twisp to stay with us. Four adults made for a pretty full motor home. As kids, we were used to being packed one on top of the other, so we do [...]

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My Angel Trumpets are ready to blow! And so are we.

I saw these beautiful, big, white blooms beside a house where I stopped at a garage sale last year. The woman who was having the sale did not know what kind of plant it was, but she said that it “spread like crazy” and that she couldn’t kill it. I asked if I could take [...]

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Hello, September!

Where did August go? The time really wasn’t flying by, though, as we waited for our computer to be repaired. When we left it with Mr. Repairman he told us ”you’ll have it back in two to five business days”. Well, let me tell you, he counts a little differently than we do. It’s been a total [...]

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