Latest Blog Posts

The following items provide links to the blog posts. The items are ordered by date (in reverse order) starting with the most recent blog post.

  • Gardening Diary – August 8, 2023

    From Facebook: US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee: Here are the public information statements from the surveys that were conducted today. Preliminary Damage Assessment of Lovell Crossing Apartments in Knoxville Tennessee.https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MRX… Preliminary Damage Assessment Sevier and Jefferson Countyhttps://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MRX… Preliminary Damage Assessment Loudon Countyhttps://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MRX… Also, here is an interactive map from…

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  • Gardening Diary – August 7, 2023

    From Facebook: US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee: From Facebook: Knoxville Utilities Board” Crews are working quickly and safely to restore power to more than 56,000 customers across our service territory after storms caused severe and widespread damage. Report outages and check for estimated restoration times through our mobile app or…

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  • Gardening Diary – July 22, 2023

    Gardening Diary – July 22, 2023

    Sharon and I continued to prune and weed the bush bed. We finished pruning the Ninebark and weeding around this bush. Sharon did some pruning of the Kaleidoscope Abelia and the Autumn Jazz Arrowwood Viburnum and some weeding around these bushes. While Sharon was doing this, I started to clear…

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  • Gardening Diary – July 17, 2023

    Gardening Diary – July 17, 2023

    Sharon and I started to clean up of the area around the bush bed. Sharon started at the front gate and started weeding, focusing on removing the Pokeweeds [Phytolacca americana]. She also started pruning the Chokeberry [Aronia melanocarpa]. We continued to do this for a couple of days culminating in…

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  • Gardening Diary – July 13, 2023

    Gardening Diary – July 13, 2023

    Recall Mea Culpa. Not sure what we did today; probably we weeded the Front bulb bed. Noah cut down the tall weeds, including the Pokeweeds [Phytolacca americana] and Goldenrod [Solidago sp.], on the other side of the Original bed. He put the weeds in the Original bed.

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