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“So here’s the thing,” I said to a friend over the weekend. “One of the things I have never been good at is the issue of watering the plants.”
“Isn’t watering kind of important?” he asked.
“It is, and that’s something I worry about here. There’s no water,” I said. “So it’s going to be up to [...]

A few nights ago, I was out having a drink at one of my favorite local watering holes (a place that probably would prefer I refer to it as a restaurant/lounge), and I started talking to a guy who had moved out to Oakland from Washington DC (without stopping in Iowa first).
“You know what I [...]

I very nearly left the house without a jacket on Sunday morning.
Two hours into my first stint as a docent in the Victory Garden, I was simultaneously applauding my decision to actually grab my favorite grey hoodie and kicking myself for not grabbing my fleece jacket to go over it.
“I’m freezing,” I muttered to Lauren, [...]

Do not think for a second that I’m going to complain about the weather in California. I’m not. By any stretch of the imagination. No way, no day.
I love the weather in California. But I will say this: It doesn’t feel like tomato weather.
It’s chilly in the mornings here, and on the Fourth of July, [...]

It’s one thing not to clean up your garden for the winter, but leaving the hanging basket up on your front porch with a dead plant for several months in a row? That’s crazy talk. Or crazy doing.
Whatever it is called, I did it. There was a point in the winter when I just decided [...]

Although I have professed my love for the flowering trees of D.C. (and, oh yes, that does include the cherry blossoms), I’ve got to admit – I never spent much time when I lived there thinking about their symbolism.
I mean, the cherry trees? To me, they symbolized the hurray of Spring, and they symbolized that [...]

I did, after my extended stay at O’Hare, finally arrive home over the weekend. I’d been gone for 12 days on what felt like the longest business trip of my life, including stops in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
When I left Iowa, the snow had indeed begun to melt, but was still shoulder-high and causing [...]

Why is it that every year, I speak too soon about the whole end-of-winter business? I mean, seriously. Every year.
Only this year, I thought there might be something to it. You know, it being Spring today. And yesterday. And the day before.
I stumbled across this quote from a helpful National Weather Service meteorologist in an [...]

First. Day. Of. Spring.
Do you know what this means, people? It means we all survived winter. Finally. We survived it.
I’m considering planting something this weekend, just for the heck of it, even though it’s still too early in Iowa and there’s snow in the forecast for Saturday morning and later next week. Oh yes. Spring [...]

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