Good Growing – Celebrating Summer’s End and Planning for Fall
Recently, chilly mornings have me grabbing my hoodie before loading the kids into the car for school. Apple orchards are starting to advertise cider...
Chris Enroth
Good Growing – Termite Troubles: Three tips for preventing infestations
Finding interesting insects is fun! At least for me. I enjoy observing the intricacies of most insects. However, there are a few creepy crawlies I do...
Good Growing – A bad year for ticks? Take steps to protect yourself
Ticks! I can’t stand these parasitic arachnids. I have had far too many run-ins with ticks throughout my life. They seem to find me every year. So far this spring I have found one lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) attached to me and I have caught several other ticks headed my way looking for a bite to eat.
Fortunately, lone star ticks are not known to transmit Lyme disease, but there are plenty of other ailments they can impart to their human host. One such affliction is the dreaded alpha-gal syndrome that makes humans allergic to red meat.
Good Growing – A pop quiz written by a winter hermit
We are only a few weeks into the new year and 2024 has already brought an actual winter! At least for now. In the prolonged cold of this past week, going outside has been, well painful. Being stuck inside I have gotten so much accomplished! We organized our storage totes, I got that window trim repaired. I even got to finish a puzzle! It’s been years since I’ve been able to finish a puzzle.