Author Archives: Susan

So in my research to find out how to get rid of the Yellowjackets–which as a reader properly pointed out are wasps, not bees–I’m supposed to sneak up on the hole at night to spray it.  I can take a … Continue reading →

If you’ve been following my normally quiet little life since mid-August you know I’ve been dancing happily around the yard picking crabapples and grapes and pears and apples and peaches and tomatoes and the rest of that vegie garden stuff, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This has been an unbelievable year in terms of the crop.  Had I known, I would have planted the Roma (plum) tomatoes you need for bulk in a salsa, but for the past several years I’d be loaded down with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A picture would’ve been better, but I was too embarrassed to holler for help and a camera. I got hung up in the grapes this morning.    You know how even though you’re afraid of heights you find yourself on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If I ever get a full time job, I wonder what I’d do come harvest?  This morning, picking the last ripe grapes, I hear a familiar hum, the hummingbird behind me, wondering what I am doing there.   I realize that … Continue reading →

The frugal waste-not nature of my mother and my father that too sadly slipped by one of my sisters makes me pause mid-field and without my mind’s control my feet take me to the apple tree, the one that Bandit–the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Grapes are growing on the peach trees, the peach trees planted themselves in the vegetable garden from fallen fruit, there’s a grapevine in the path in the back yard, and more on trees in my neighbor’s yard where Andy threw … Continue reading → Continue reading →

At CVS Pharmacy this morning, I tell the manager behind the counter not to order "my" cigarettes anymore–they used to hide a box for me under the counter.  She loudly congratulated me, told the other girl I’ve stopped smoking and … Continue reading → Continue reading →