Happy Holidays from the snowbound! Belated best wishes for a joyous Christmas season! As usual, we are a day or two off the pace. The mountains of snow, while picturesque, haven’t really helped. Nearly all of our plans came a-cropper because of the unusual snowfall.
Christmas Eve church service was cancelled – and along with it [...]
Archive for December, 2008
When Life Gives You Snow…
Posted in Modern Life, community, family, kids, tagged Christmas fun, community, family, snow, tobogganing on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Garden Update Part 2 – Success and Pineapple Sage
Posted in blogs and bloggers, garden, gardening, tagged blogs and bloggers, cottage garden, gardening, pineapple sage on December 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Early this year I was fortunate to come across a post on a gardening blog called Always Blooming, written by Jan in Covington, Louisiana. She wrote about salvia elegans, more commonly known as pineapple sage. I’d never heard about it before, but quickly determined that it was suitable to zone 8. Not long after, I [...]
Garden Update Part 1 – the Struggle
Posted in Sunshine Coast B.C., cottage, garden, gardening, landscaping, tagged cottage, garden, gardening, Sunshine Coast on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Coming up to the one year anniversary of acquiring Keats View Cottage and time to cop to our successes and failures with the garden. In our defence, I would just like to say that we have never owned a fertile piece of ground before. As a result, all spring and summer I went about with [...]
