Last week in pictures

My coworkers creating a website… A date night trip to the iSold it on eBay store! Yes, a physical store where you can’t actually buy anything… A date night trip to the very first shopping mall – sadly more than 1/3 empty. Surreal… More after the jump!

Now I get why GW Bush loved clearing brush so much

Our yard in historic downtown Chaska is blessed with an abundant assortment of lilac trees and rows of garden phlox. The former required some extreme trimming due to their height hitting our power lines, so I went lumberjack on them in late October. The latter produces a significant amount of dead waste each fall, and […]

It’s a mulchtacular Saturday

I added up the cubic feet needed do to our yard — and this will cover almost the first third! Do they sell stock in mulch?

Strawberry Harvest

I wish my wife and son ate strawberries, because I’m harvesting strawberries from our backyard nearly every single night. I guess that’s more for me. They are way sweeter than you get at the store — probably because they aren’t doused with chemicals and transported thousands of miles. It’s the little things, you know…

Compost = tackled

Oh thank God: the compost monster at my house has been slain. Before After Well…damn. I guess I forgot to take a good after picture. You can tell it’s not there in the top right corner of this photo. I got it all churned up and distributed into my two compost bins (see previous post), […]

Ur invited to the compost party at my house

Our home’s previous owners were crazy about their garden, and as such, had a serious compost pile between the garage and a lattice fence. And after I piled on all the dead trimmings last fall, the pile itself was larger than our minivan. I’m serious. You have no idea how stressful it is to walk […]

Them peppers is spicy

We had a hot pepper tasting at work today thanks to my colleague Erik, who grows them in his basement. This is Erik. You’ll note he wears gloves to chop up the peppers — yet then you put them in your mouth! Erik grows Dorset Nagas, the hottest peppers in the world. He also brought […]