Remember Phoebe the hummingbird with the webcam? Well, after an extended run of bad maternal luck, including lizard attacks on her nest, non-viable eggs, and eggs eaten by crows, she celebrated Mother’s Day with the hatching of her daughter, Hope. Hope is the size of a thumbnail. There’s still one egg left to hatch. You […]

Remember I said I’d lost my community garden plot because I missed a key gardening meeting, and the notice said in big bold type that anybody who didn’t attend or send regrets would forfeit their plot?

After three weeks of feeling bad and procrastinating about it, I finally picked up the phone yesterday and called […]