Last year I had Mike bunny-proof the garden after the adorable little bunny babies that visited us daily had consumed a couple hundred dollars worth of plants by gnawing them down to mere stems. Of particular dismay was the power eating they conducted on my hollyhocks. Apparently, one can have bunnies or hollyhocks in one's [...]
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Bunnies and hollyhocks…can a girl have both?
My first spring in Kindred I planted Hollyhock seeds in a modest garden plot along the garage. Every year thereafter the hollyhocks came up more prolifically than the year before. They were glorious. When I moved from Kindred, I tried to dig up some of my hollyhocks and take them with me, but they did [...]
Feeding my habit…
Every late afternoon when I leave my new office in Putnam Hall and come upon the trees by the corner of the library I come upon a hub of activity. Not from students...by that time the campus is fairly empty. The activity comes from a whole collection of birds and squirrels that have quite a [...]