


gardening and enjoying life in Salem, Massachusetts
Here’s a little gallery of photos that I took yesterday while on a quick trip to Marblehead with my Mom and Mother-in-law. Marblehead is only a few miles away but it feels like a different world. I love these little right around the corner vacations! Click on any photo to enlarge and view as a slideshow. Enjoy!
I donated some weeding time to our church auction a few months ago. This morning was weeding day for the kind friends who purchased my services. I love to weed! It’s relaxing and I love seeing an area of the garden pop out and shine. I enjoyed it even more than usual today because this was my view:
Peace and tranquility at it’s best!
and a nice finished product at the end!
Well, almost finished, I made a few more passes over this before I was done.
Enjoy everything today!
Love, Michele
We are in the middle of a Nor’easter here this morning. For those who don’t live in New England, A Nor’easter is a storm that comes in off of the ocean from the northeast. Nor’easters often bring damage to homes, roads and of course, gardens. Salem is under a flood warning today as the tide is expected to be unusually high. Many of our roads here flood when this happens because water going out to the ocean through the storm drains backs up and has no place to go. There can also be damage to homes on the water when the ocean gets higher and closer than we’d like it to. Let’s hope and pray that everyone is okay and the beautiful homes on the coast and in town don’t sustain too much damage.
I’m a little bit of a planner so here’s an overview of what may happen this week at the The Salem Garden if all goes well. Of course we know that in a household with this many people anything could happen but we’ll hope for the best!
Some of my kids and I will be planting something together… look familiar? I’m excited about this project!
I hope to show you something else about Salem. It won’t be the Friendship because the ship is away for repairs. She should be back very soon and we’ll be visiting then.
Things are growing in the garden! We’ll be sure to take a look.
I think we’ll be visiting our chickens too. Here’s one of our babies about eight weeks ago. Just like my human babies, they grow so quickly!
Sounds busy! Let’s get going! A little rain is nothing!