You know it’s been a long winter when your spouse comes home, announces he has just bought several years worth of firewood at once and all you can think is he should have bought more.  At a time of year when it makes more sense to be visiting plant nurseries, saving up for a vacation [...]

  I’ve been planting some garden seeds.  Getting my hands into the soil – even if it’s only the bagged kind – has been pure bliss.  I’m thinking maybe it won’t be winter forever after all. Maybe spring really will come.  It always makes me giddy when I tear open that first pack of seeds.  [...]

Tyra Banks is terrified of dolphins, Orlando Bloom is scared of pigs, Oprah Winfrey has a phobia of gum and Woody Allen…well according to one source the iconic director is afraid of insects, sunshine, dogs, deer, bright colours, children, heights, small rooms, crowds and every place in the world except Manhattan.  It’s easy to laugh [...]

Well March is here, it’s 35 below, the snow has been falling for over 12 hours and I now realize that spring will never come.  I will be holed up in this house with a pile of worn out seed catalogues for the rest of my life.  We will run out of hay, the horses [...]