maywood living
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Is is June yet? YES!!!
Day One of summer vacation arrived with the theme song to “Rocky” ba-bum-bum-bum-bumming in my head. I awoke to Harper running into our room, “PopPop, when you are finished sleeping, will you get up and make me some sausage?” We had to get up anyway because it’s cleaning day and we had not tidied before going to bed. Up… Continue reading
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Smelling the roses…
“Life comes at you fast.” We all love those insurance commercials because we could all have our turn starring in one. Sometimes it even involves a big insurance claim, like for my daughter who recently went through labor with their first child while her husband dealt with a massive basement disaster. Other times, we get caught up… Continue reading
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Sage Blossoms
Sage blossom–it sounds like a paint color that my daughter Kristin would pick, except that she picks variations on sage green. Sage blossoms are purple. I didn’t even know that sage got flowers until two years ago. (Just shows how “expert” a gardener I am.) At that point my plants had decided they were mature enough… Continue reading
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Tadpoles
What do you do when you and your favorite five year old find yourselves stuck at home on a gorgeous sunny morning? Check out the tadpoles, of course. We had gone down to the field to see how the blueberry plants were doing and, while I was yapping on the cellphone, I tried to distract him by making… Continue reading
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John Michael Monopolis
Mini-Mo has arrived! He decided to hang in there through 26 hours of labor until May 7 so that he and his cousin could have the same day of the month as birthdays. Or not. At least it will help aunties to remember the date. He weighed in at 6 lbs, 13 oz. and is 20″… Continue reading
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Fête du muguet
I’ve been around long enough not to be surprised, but I’m still delighted at how things bloom every year like clockwork. It is now May and the lilies of the valley are opening their little bell-shaped flowers right on schedule. In France, May 1st is the Fête du Muguet, when one gives bouquets of lily of the valley… Continue reading
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Mondays at Maywood
Mondays at Maywood are my musings from my corner of the Hereford Zone. So far the posts on my MaywoodLiving blog have been mainly read by friends, family, and whoever reads my husband’s Facebook posts, but The Zone Magazine has invited me to share my posts via their website on Mondays. So welcome Hereford Zone readers! Maywood is the property on which… Continue reading
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Junior Beekeeper
Today was a very exciting day: we picked up four new boxes of Russian bees. It was a long wait from the time we realized all of our bees had died over the winter to the arrival of their replacements. John’s little apprentice was getting antsy to try out his new beekeeper suit. This morning we drove out… Continue reading
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Wild Violets
We don’t have a lawn. We have non-wooded areas that get mowed. Occasionally those areas are supplemented with grass seed, and the grass learns to live in cooperation with all the other ground covers already occupying the yard. Right now the yard is sprinkled with delicate little violets, as are my flower beds and the vegetable garden,… Continue reading
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April Showers
If April showers really bring May flowers, then we are going to have a gorgeous May. For every lovely sunny day, we have had to suffer a week’s worth of gloom. Ok, I am on a weather rant. It is cold. Raindrops pelt the window. The trees are whooshing and swaying in the wind. Traffic rushing… Continue reading
Slightly Off the Grid 