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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.16

Good morning, and busy busy busy.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Another great week here in Denver.  We started out in the low 80s, warmed up to 92° mid-week, then another band of...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.17

Good morning, and it's Summer!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.We've had another beautiful week here in Denver: started with highs in the 70s, building up to 91° by mid-week — and then a...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.18

Good morning, and I'll miss June when it's gone.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.June has been beautiful here in Denver — enough heat to get the veggies going, but no consecutive days of...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.21

Good morning, and I guess we're in a permanent state of weird.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.It seems like this year the season were thrown into a paper bag then vigorously shaken — and...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.23

Good morning, and I may have Audrey III in the back yard.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.We've had more weirdly cold weather in Denver this past week, along with a healthy and extended...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.24

Good morning, and where's August?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver's delightful weather has continued into the first full week of August, with the strong monsoonal flow bringing...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.27

Good morning, and Labor Day already?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver has had an extremely long and strong monsoon season this year.  We've had thunderstorms and rain almost every...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.28

Good morning, and is it summer?  Fall?  I'm getting so confused.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.On Wednesday, September 3, the high was 94° — hotter than it had been through the entire...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.30

Good morning, and happy autumn!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.The shot of winter that we had a week ago jump-started the change in seasons, even though we switched right back into...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.33

Good morning, and it really is fall.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.We got a whiff of frost on October 3 — enough to freeze burn the very top of the tomato vines, but not enough to kill...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.35

Good morning, and is the calendar stuck?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.You see that lush growth?  That's the zucchetta vine, which should be dead.  Our weirdly warm October continues: no...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.36

Good morning, and Happy Day After Halloween!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging. My garden dressed as September for Halloween That's what's happening here.  What's going on in your gardens?

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Gawd I Hate Drinkers

Gawd - I hate drinkers!.I live in a urban area, and all year long I see the SUVs of drinkers parked crookedly with the ass-end in the roadway and taking up 3 spaces along the street where I live, as...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.40

Good morning, and happy Thanksgiving!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.This has been the weirdest November here in Denver.  We started out extremely warm, reaching a high of 72° on November...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.41

Good morning, and at least the Christmas cactus bloomed at the right time.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver's weather has not been getting me into the mood for Christmas.The high on...

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Silent F*cking Night

This is the eighth annual posting of the Christmas Story, from a mother's point of view. Through the years it's changed a bit — the language tweaked here and there, photos added then improved upon.In...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.45

Good morning, and it just ain't right.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Our weirdly variable weather here in Denver, which started with a sudden, brutal freeze in early November, has...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.46

Goodmorning, and isn’t this just perfectly fucked up?So, yesterday was one of those days.It started with having to spend 15 minutes chiseling peepholes through the ice a freezing drizzle had left on my...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.50

Good morning, and it's still weird.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.In Denver this week we went from lumpy wads of wet snow on February 1, to a high in the mid 70s yesterday — and in...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 11.1: Tenth Anniversary Edition!

Good morning, and are you ready for another ten?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Blogging Tenth Anniversary Edition! I have headed Saturday Morning Garden Blogging for a full ten years.  During that time...

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