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August 30, 2023

Wordless Wednesday 2023 Wk 35

a tomato in the garden, covered in dew

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May 12, 2023

Friday 5: Speed

calendar page friday may 12

Happy Friday, which is also National Nutty Fudge Day and National Odometer Day! (WM: I thought National Odometer Day was rolled back. badum-tsh!) It's the end of a long week at work, with a few meetings that could have gone sideways but did not. For that I am grateful. Summer weather has arrived just in time for the Devils' hockey season to come to an end. They played really well and ended the season strong, losing in sudden death overtime. I'm sad to see hockey go because it was a great ...

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March 1, 2023

Wordless Wednesday 2023 WK 9

the first lemon off of our Meyer lemon tree with a ruler next to it The lemon is 1 inch long.

Rabbit Rabbit! (previously) ...

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February 22, 2023

Wordless Wednesday 2023 WK8

three green tulip leaves, each about 3 inches high, poking out of the soil

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February 20, 2023

The 2023 return of Angry Man Farm

28 little cells filled with dirt and seeds

We call our backyard garden Angry Man Farm. It's because of a long running joke between WM and me that so many farms are named pleasant names like Fox Run and Sunflower Hill that we ever owned a farm, we'd name it something humorous and realistic. Thus, Angry Man Farm was born in 2018 when we moved in and started an herb garden. What I'm learning about gardening is that the more you do it, the more confusing it gets. Take last frost date, for example. For the last few years, I've been using ...

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March 31, 2022

Angry Man Farm 22 – the deep freeze

Of course, of course, as soon as I felt cocky and thought "hmmmm....I can plant some cold weather crops like garlic and lettuce outside!" on Sunday we plunged back into temperature lows in 20s and snow squalls. Of course. will I ever learn? WILL I? So on Sunday we scrambled to cover up the lettuce and garlic with a bed of leaves and a plastic cover that we kept down with branches from the yard. Not doing yard work all winter paid off! It's not going down past freezing for at least ...

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March 21, 2022

The weekend that was a balm to my soul

the beach at ocean city, nj

It was gorgeous here in NJ this weekend. On Saturday the temp went up to the low 70s, and Sunday it was in the high 50s. SPRING HAS SPRUNG! Know that I jinx us all by typing this, because it tends to snow here at the end of March/beginning of April. In no particular order, this weekend I: changed the turn signal lightbulb in the black Jeep - thanks to YouTube for showing me how to do it on a Wrangler. Jeeps and their lightbulbs, let me tell you....mounted the birdhouse I received for ...

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March 18, 2022

Friday 5: Take me to the old playground

giant boxes on a pallet. not pictured: Kim's simmering doubt that this will fit in the proper room and her sinking feeling that her craft room will be completely overtaken.

Happy Friday! It's GORGEOUS here today. The weather inched into the low 70s. I took Murphy for a walk at lunchtime, and after work I planted garlic and lettuce outside! Tomorrow it's supposed to rain. And Sunday we're vernal equinoxing! Welcome spring, you gorgeous gorgeous girl. This week's Friday 5 theme is Take me to the old playground, which for me is right down the street from where I live. I never really made it far from the nest. When did you most recently swing on a ...

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March 9, 2022

Angry Man Farm 2022 – IT BEGINS

peat pots, ready for seeds

In case you happen to be new to this old blog, Angry Man Farm is simply our garden. Many years ago WM and I noticed that farms have such lovely, bucolic names like Lone Pine Farm or Running Horse Farm. If we had a farm, it would be Angry Man Farm. But we don't have a farm, we have a vegetable garden that seems to be more work than yield but every March I dive in as if I have forgotten the aphids, rabbits, drought, rot, frost, and wind that conspire against me every year. And it is ...

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August 22, 2021

Virgo SZN. Yay.

Yeah, I'm still here, slowly picking up the daily rhythm again of chores and routine and limping through the rest of what was not a great August. The squirrels are stealing the large tomatoes from my garden while they're still green. I have successfully harvested one meager large tomato and it's frustrating. I didn't want to build ceilinged cages around my plants but I might need to do that next year around the tomato bed. And the herbs are stunted and I think the stain I chose for the ...

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April 29, 2021

Angry Man Farm – Movin’ Outside

assortment of stones with vegetables painted on them. for use in the garden to mark where plants are

In March, I started some seeds for this year's garden. Out of everything I planted, I emerged with: One sage plantOne lavender plantFive moss roses that look barely viableTwo cauliflower plantsFive jalapeno peppersFive sweet pepper plantsEight regular tomato plantsEight cherry tomato plants (two varieties) Last weekend, I transplanted most of the above seedlings into individual pots and put them into my little greenhouse. The cauliflower went right into one of the beds with some lettuce ...

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March 15, 2021

Angry Man Farm 2021 – The beginning

Like many of the things 2020 brought us, last year's garden adventure was a bust. The squirrels (possibly a raccoon?) ate almost all of the corn before it fully ripened. Our herbs were hampered by a very late frost and struggled to recover. I tried growing tomatoes from the previous year's seeds and while the plants grew plentiful, most of the tomatoes stayed green and then rotted. The carrots didn't grow very long at all. We had an aphid infestation which was disgusting to say the least. And ...

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I've been blogging for over twenty (2 decades! 2-0!) years and I'm apparently one of the few over-50 female bloggers who haven't sold out to THE MAN yet; hence this blog remains quirky, homespun, and unprofitable. No big. However, if you're from Disney, Doritos, or Dave Matthews Band, I'm open to talk about selling out.

I live in Southern New Jersey with my husband WM, and our dog Murphy. I'm an adult who likes Disney but not a Disney Adult. I used to work a fun (really!) office job in Philadelphia, but since March of 2020 I'm a work from home hermit. So if you're looking for a childless, slightly round, marginally boring GenX woman's blog to follow, you've come to the right place! :)

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