Day to Day Life of a Very Lazy Gardener

 Bring it on 2026 The year 2025 was a very mixed bag. As is evident by the title of this blog, I am a very very lazy gardener.  I did the ba...

10 days before her 86th birthday, my mom left her body. (I wrote this in November 2022) When she entered the world Franklin D Roosevelt was ...

Years ago we had a swarm visit the place.  It was exciting and a bit frightening.  I called our friend/plumber who has been keeping bees for...

 Today is my mother's 84th birthday.  Happy birthday Mom! I have a lovely memory of spending her 70th birthday with her in Paris.  You c...

When I first started blogging, I started following a blog entitled As Time Goes By by Ronni Bennet.  A former television producer who had be...

In 1980, I was 18 years old.   The drinking laws had just changed in Iowa.  Previously the legal age was 18. The law now stated that a perso...

This summer my mother had a TIA.  For those who don't know, a TIA is a transient ischaemic attack.  It's a mini-stroke.  If any sort...