Karey's Overflow: Aerating/Weeding ;^)

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Name: Karey

Location: Colorado, United States

I garden at 8000 feet, cook from scratch, needle felt, read books continually, study history and epistemology, write daily, contemplate spiritual theology, and pursue heirloom arts. I love to paint pictures of living beyond maintenance -- living creatively, discovering beauty in everyday ordinary things. I've been happily married to Monte, who is a geologist, for a long time and still very much in love, even after raising a family and building two houses. Our children are our best friends. Heather is newly married to Bill. Travis, a minister of the fine arts, is married to Sarah. And Dawson is in college. I naturally live first-hand and have recently realized that this is how we educated our children and ourselves. I love to learn about everything, teach, and work with my hands. I love my home, but my life has overflowed -- as a teacher, radio/conference/retreat speaker, author, and most recently as a MOPS mentor. Kareyswan.com is an ideal way for me to share my overflowing life with kindred spirits and those hungering to move beyond maintenance -- to be known by who they are, not just by what they do.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Aerating/Weeding ;^)

I can't believe what I just did!! I aerated our lawn with our electric drill!

ACTUALLY ... I read in one of my garden books about planting some very early Spring flower bulbs in the grass. Since we've been doing tons of landscaping this year, we left only a small bit of lawn. I ordered a bunch more flower bulbs to plant in these new areas. So when I read about putting this flower in the grass ...

I've been wanting to aerate the grass, but not rent this huge aerator, and overseed the grass with new grass seed. I got this auger that goes on the drill for planting bulbs, but it's rather big and these bulbs are really small. So I put the 1/2" drill bit in, and started drilling holes in the grass.

I threw out the 100 bulbs of Chionodoxa, Glory-of-the-Snow (blue flowers), scattering them all over the grass. Then I'd drill holes and periodically put a bulb in it. And you know what? It's a great way to dig out dandelion and other weeds. Then I scattered grass seed and compost over the area.

I wonder what our neighbor's think ;^) of our doings sometimes.

Labels: Gardening, Happenings

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Karey,
Hello! I am an admirer of yours from afar. I am a happy homemaker with 4 little ones and desire a healthier lifestyle (as we can afford, growing into one).

I have recently started grinding my own grain and made the decision to make as many things myself as I can. I have been keeping a blog (www.xanga.com/ambigousinamber) of the recipes I really like and would like to repeat. When I suddenly realized that I was a copy-righting (is that the right word?) (well, I was actually not respecting the copy-right of) some of your recipes!
A friend lent me your book "Hearth & Home' and this is what I was pulling from as I made things. I want to apologize and ask if you would like me to take them down. I think I gave credit where credit was due although with the craziness of my life I may have missed something. Please let me know what you would like me to do.

The reason I had put the blog up in the first place was to have a 'home' that wasn't an easily lost piece of paper. It wasn't intended to replace your book or copy all of your recipes. Just until I could afford to purchase (and/or find) your book myself.
My email is ambiguousinamber@aol.com
Thank you!
Kcaarin Pineau; September 11, 2008 10:22 AM
Karey said...: I do post recipes here sometimes, but I now keep a 'recipe box' on my computer to put both my recipes and ones I find online into. It categorizes them and all. I think it's in connection with the Food Network.; September 11, 2008 3:53 PM

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