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First Test Video!

Ok, here goes! This is just a little practice clip I grabbed off the camera where I’m telling my puppies (Oh, and did I mention I’m prone to high-pitched baby talk when I talk to my dogs?) how cute they are… over… and over… and over...

Quick Gardenish Note

Happy June. Been busy lately with family stuff… my little baby cousin is graduating from UCLA in a few weeks and we’re making a family video before we all converge on the Hotel Bel Air like the Beverly Hillbillies we are. I volunteered to do the video...

Brown Rot hits my cherries

This is how they look now… pretty much ruined by brown rot. My ‘Stella’ has always put out great cherries without fungicides, but this extra rain we got well into spring did in this year’s crop. C’est la vie! Here’s another great...

Ads, Vlogs and Such

You may have noticed the sudden appearance of ads on the bulletin board. I had hoped to get the archived messages switched over to my new web host, but the conversion program for switching to a new format without losing old messages doesn’t work with new...

Events Calender is baaaaack…

I ditched the at-first charming but eventually demonic calendar program I was using for listing garden events and have gone back to my simple page of event listings. I toyed with the idea of linking to the Bee’s garden events calendar (as a time-saver for me),...

Smith & Hawken "Outlet" in Berkeley

Having shopped there in the past, where good deals and a parking lot nursery made a visit worthwhile, a recent stop sooooooo disappointed. Gone are the parking lot plants, gone are the outlet prices. In fact, most of the “outlet” has been converted to an...