Welcome to Litsy!

Here‘s a tribute to my dog Toppy. Since she‘s now at the Rainbow Bridge, I decorated our calendar in our kitchen with some stickers for the day she passed away and it happened on my brother‘s birthday too. I remember the time she saw a turtle on a walking trail that I took her to. She crouched down in the grass and sniffed it where its head was. It put its head inside its shell. I wish I could hide my head inside my shell sometimes like a turtle.

“But it was alive, and Gwendolyn could talk to it, care for it, and watch it grow.“

The journey shown in this story highlights the importance of caring for both plants and animals, which embraces readers to celebrate our natural world.

Such a cute book of Gwendolyn determined to grow flowers attracting various animals to her magical garden. This story explores themes of creativity, responsibility, and the joy of nurturing life.

On paper, I should have loved this. I listened to the audiobook which I found uninspiring and flat. The tone made it difficult to engage with, even though I was interested in the topic: Laing is restoring a garden in Suffolk which she uses as a point to explore the ways humans have created “paradises” over the years. Gardens exist for the wealthy through slave labor. What‘s the impact of this? This gets lots of praise, so I should have gone print.

I think this is a good little overview for beginners. Sure, it‘s not an “end all, be all” reference to end all references, but it‘s a good place to start that won‘t overwhelm someone that is new and curious. Beautiful photography and great resource list! Fun way to spend a morning off work. 🪴

Getting into this on audio, finally. Also began dismantling my garden for the season. Going to overwinter a tomato plant and see how that goes. #gardening #litsygardens

Just harvested my first attempt at chard. It actually worked! #gardening

#MonthlyMagazineBlitz is a success! I'm down to my stack of Gardening catalogs and The English Garden magazines that I'm keeping for Reference and Inspiration.

But keep me on the tag list @julieclair because I want to keep going. Up next is that stack of recipes I kept from the magazines I discarded. Need to sort and put in my Seasonal Recipe Notebooks.

We thoroughly enjoyed our annual lobster roll end of summer celebration yesterday. Cool breezes, sunshine, blue sky - perfect weather to sit by the sea. A stop for ice cream in Madison demanded a visit to Indie bookstore RJJulia‘s.As I have a book buying ban, I limited myself to 2 books- 🤫 #endofsummer #familycelebration