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Author Archives: Lanny

About Lanny

In Him we live and move and have our being. And we do so in the beautiful land tucked between Mount Rainier and the Puget Sound.

Some People Skip Out

Just thought I toss this out there for you, Dear Reader this morning’s coffee cup holder. Not that we are so hooked on our brand names here at Vicktory Farm & Gardens but I do like a good cuppa coffee and Dirt likes a nice ride. Speaking of nice rides…. I ought to keep track … Continue reading »

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A Darn Fine Day

The girls and I saw this as we traveled to my non-appointment today. Heads up. March 18 is also on a Thursday. Look closely at month names and dates this month that is all I have to say. It was an amazingly beautiful day today. The Olympics (the mountain range out on the Olympic Peninsula … Continue reading »

Categories: Weather | 6 Comments

Soakin’ and Stripin’

SoaksOkay, so I totally forgot to put my pea seeds, sweet and garden, to soak last night. They will soak overnight tonight here on the breakfast bar then tomorrow I will put inoculant on them. The garden (eating) peas will go straight in the ground and the sweet (flower) peas will go in peat pots … Continue reading »

Categories: Garden Methods | 7 Comments

Yahooo, We Snagged a Biggen Off the List

Not sure where that list is now, but I had a list of things Vicktory Farm and Gardens needed, oh wait, I think it was in a post, not my side bar, any who, we can cross a big need off that list. We went up to Bellevue in Dirt’s big fat truck (that is … Continue reading »

Categories: Poultry, Vicktory Farm and Gardens | 8 Comments

Almost Done

Well here is the hall in stage two, if stage one was paint over the yellow with white and prep the walls as best can. . Color is always an interesting thing to me and the funny rules people have for it. Like, pink and red clash. Who says? Certainly not in the flower bed … Continue reading »

Categories: Redecorating | 6 Comments

Another Vicktory Farm & Gardens Weekend

It’s February, believe it or not, and there are lots of birthdays in February it turns out. My oldest daughter is a February baby, so is my second son, a good friend of mine has a February birthday as does one of her sons and the oldest son of some other good friends of ours, … Continue reading »

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Busy Weekend, You?

As usual here at Vicktory Farm & Gardens we have been cramming a lot into our days. This week I went to town twice, once to do our regular shopping-Thursday thing adding Anna’s first try at the written test for her permit, and then back on Friday for the second try at her test.All that … Continue reading »

Categories: Homemaking, Peripheral Neuropathy, Redecorating | 6 Comments

The Weather Outside Is Frightful

Conversation on the phone yesterday morning at five after eight, five minutes after I should have left to go “exercise” with my good friend and across-the-highway neighbor:“Hey, I’m going to be a bit late.”“How come?”“Went out to my car and there was this weird white stuff stuck to my windshield.”“Really? What is it?”“Well, I hear … Continue reading »

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Can We Time This Better?

Some friends of ours are slowly sharing their family photos with us and got to a great grandfather, still alive, that has lived around thirty years without his beloved. Our friends say that they want to check out closer in time to one another. That’s sweet but I wanted to know how they were going … Continue reading »

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So No Real Work Today!

The sun is shining, the earth is warm, I have a deadline looming and a ton of work today. There is no earthly good reason for me to be in here writing to you Dear Reader, but I just have to share with you what I discovered today. I’m a bit slow on the uptake, … Continue reading »

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