San Juan Family

Invoking higher powers

mrshannigan — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:48:28 +0000

Last night, I fell asleep imagining we were home in San Juan Island. I strolled through my garden pathways overlooking the Pacific. I could see Vancouver, fiddleneck ferns, and moss growing on the edge of my pavers. Inside, I had a vaulted ceiling with a trapeze and room to practice hula hooping tricks, even in [...]

Composting with Worms

mrshannigan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:36:20 +0000

I’ve been reading about this because our gardening soil here in Central WA sucks, it’s got a lot of clay in it and my carrots were short, everything else was… blah. Anyway, I wasn’t impressed. I had a small compost and I’m thinking that I need to start a bigger one. I know we plan [...]

Almost Home

mrshannigan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:22:25 +0000

Not quite what we planned, but it will work anyway. We were hoping to use the unfortunate incident with our water heater to get our butts in gear and get to the San Juans, so we could actually BE the San Juan Family that we’re supposed to be. However, the water heater was repaired, the [...]