I was cleaning up the vegetable beds last fall , a messy process full of soggy rotting tomatoes and fruit flies. At some point in the day ...

  We were starting to worry that the episode of Portlandia they filmed at our house ended up on the cutting room floor. Set your Tivos for...

There's an old adage that in the first year your plants sleep, the second they creep, and the third year they leap. For some of the plan...

I'm a little embarrassed; I'd never actually seen one of these in real life until this guy showed up in my yard. Turdus migrator...

After almost a year of obsessively walking our neighborhood and discussing the merits of other people's paintjobs (that's what the ...

So. The side yard with its sad weird curves, its buried oil tank, and its random mohawk of roses. I've spent so much energy in the b...

Squirrels are such assholes.