I just had to throw a hunk of cat poo down the toilet. It was stuck to my cat’s trousers. That sort of thing happens when you have a long haired, fluffy bummed cat who is also a champion pooer. […]
Those of you who read this blog regularly are familiar with Pink Tool Belt. She has a clean potato bin. That is the kind of person she is. She’s the kind of person who cleans her potato bin regularly. […]
A couple of weeks ago I showed you my community garden and yesterday I showed you my front yard vegetable garden. But today I have for you, your gardens. There won’t be a lot of writing with this post because […]
Yeah, so the good part is over. The side yard, where there are very few vegetables aside from a couple of potato plants and the massive rhubarb you can see in the foreground, is the most attractive part […]
The sign had been at the end of the country driveway for as long as I could remember. It was facing the highway, with the message hand written in black paint. Fig Trees for sale. Every time I drove past […]
I made a naked cake. A cake that is naked. Naked cakes sprang up at hipster weddings across the land last year. Since I am neither a hipster nor getting married there was no reason for me to have a […]
So what’s a broody chicken. I could have told you a few years ago what one was but it would have just been regurgitation of stuff I read on the Internet not anything I’d actually experienced, which is why I […]
(This is a quick reminder that today is the last day to get my The Art of Building a Blogging career for the sale price of $50. At midnight E.S.T. it goes back to $199 for the 5 hours […]
A few weeks ago I promised you I’d give you a bit of a refresher course on how blogs make money. In case you’re wondering how I make money. Or anyone else who has a blog for that matter. And […]
You are looking at a filth monster. A furry, mass of guck. There’s fireplace guck, cat guck, and general guck. And those are just the ones I could identify. I’ve had this Mongolian lamb throw covering […]
I buy hummus. That’s right. I said it. I buy it. I don’t make it. I go to the store with a fist full of quarters, throw them at whoever is standing near the hummus, grab it and run away. […]
Welcome to my garden. This post isn’t for you fancy people who buy your broccoli in the store like some sort of aristocrat. It’s for the rest of us. The common folk who grow our own broccoli, realize it […]
There was a knock at the front door. The door that welcomes you to my home with a brick path flanked by day lillies, fluttering moths and lazy streams of sunshine streaking across the grass. It’s the kind of […]
Welcome to my Community Garden, year 2015. Also welcome to my picture post. The garden is so big and there’s so much to show and explain about it that I’m breaking it up into two posts. This first post […]
If you ask people in the rest of the world to describe the weather in Canada, 90% of them would say it’s cold with a chance of hockey. Even though I made that percentage up, based on my […]
I know you’ll all agree that there’s no better birthday present than an ear of corn on the cob. It comes with it’s own rustic hipster wrapping, it’s made of 100% gold colour and only sometimes has worms. So when […]
When last we met we were discussing the merits of “the f word” and maggots. Today I’m refining my language a bit. We’ll be speaking about rotting flesh. When I first discovered Flystrike on my chicken Cuddles my first […]
My heart sank as soon as I opened up the coop doors to let everyone out for the morning. Every morning the routine is the same and this morning was no different. Wake up, pad downstairs, throw my […]
I like cheese. A lot. I once applied for a hosting job and they asked me why I wanted it. I told them cheese. I wanted to be able to afford better cheese. I can’t remember if I got […]
That’s my porch up there! Photo by Donna Griffith for Canadian Living magazine. If you want to see some STUNNING food photography take a look at her page. Read my feature in Canadian Living Magazine now! Today is Canada […]
Please enjoy this photo of me literally smiling up at nothing. I am not looking at anything or anyone. I am alone in my garden but wanted a photo of me with my tomatoes for the blog but when I […]
When I was 12 I made this drawing of a horse. I knew art historians were going to want to refer back to it when I was older and more established as an artist so I purposely put my age […]
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Mindy made me make a rhubarb cake. Mindy’s a reader and she’s an asshead. Last year at some point when I mentioned rhubarb she told me I had to make a rhubarb cake. This year I did a post […]
This post is going to rile a bunch of you up, so I want to say simmer down right now. You’re going to get the chance to have your say at the end of this post. But for now, the […]
Yeah, yeah, it’s beautiful I know. But that’s not what I want to talk about right now. I, at this very moment am so tired I could fall over. You know that kind of tired where everything looks […]
Coffee is one of the simple pleasures in life. I love it so much I don’t even know how to explain it without making myself sound like someone you’d warn your children about. I will talk about coffee, drink […]
Ironstone is a ceramic invented in the early 1800’s. The recipe for making it was invented in 1800 as a new way to produce earthenware and porcelain. But the company went bankrupt and the patent was given to Spode. In […]
I kind of left you hanging there with the whole sweet potato slips thing. Sorry about that but I was busy. I couldn’t tell you what I was busy with, all I know is that “I was busy” is a […]
At the beginning of every summer, bumbling creatures across Canada poke their heads out, blink their eyes at the sun and make their way out of their groundhog holes. Then we go to garage sales. OR if you’re […]
Many years ago when I was working at a television station in Toronto I ate the same thing in the cafeteria for lunch every single day. This was not unlike what I did in highschool when I ate french fries […]
Asparagus! I don’t mean to boast, (but really I do) but I have quite a knack when it comes to growing asparagus. For those of you who don’t know, Asparagus is one of the very few perennial vegetables around. […]
People have been asking me recently about my beauty routine. And really all I do for my skin is wear sunscreen, moisturize every day and drink lots of water. While sitting in my botox clinic. Just kidding. I’m a […]
How to make and use a DIY soil grader. photo by Leo Muzzin DIY soil grader! What you need. A wood pallet with most of the wood removed. A couple of ropes. The ability to act like an Ass. Or horse. […]
I’m spending this week getting my 20′ x 40′ garden plot ready. 20 feet x 40 feet doesn’t sound very big until you have to dig every inch of it up. Then it’s big. It’s very big. Clown shoes big. […]
I love the classics. If there’s an old fashioned, classic, timeless way to do something, that’s usually the route I take. The fact that I drink “Diet” Coke instead of the original confuses and alarms me to this day. I […]
I’ve never had much luck growing strawberries. Mainly I think it’s because I’ve never planted them. I’m not saying I’ve never had strawberry plants in my possession but I’ve never actually planted them. A couple of years ago I had […]
When I first started this blog I was pretty surprised when anyone showed up to look at it let alone someone from another country. I figured maybe they were lost. Ya know. Stumbled here while looking for a real blog. […]
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