Garden Musings

(fair warning;  long and lots of pictures and links to previous blogs) If there is a Hell, ProfessorRoush is convinced that it is populated ...

One might think that apricots have little to do with packrats, however both are currently pressing subjects on the mind of ProfessorRoush. ...

ProfessorRoush came home early from work yesterday, malice in his soul and arson in his heart.  I spent half last fall and winter trying to ...

I write today in awe of one of nature's most finely-tuned predators, the Red-Tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis , ubiquitous on the Kansas...

It's official, folks.   ProfessorRoush is declaring that his beloved 'Red Cascade' is well on its way to recovery.  This forme...

Okay, okay.  I'll end your suspense over the two unaccounted pack rat deaths that I claimed in my last post. Sometime in late January,...

Among my spring chores, one of the nagging little tasks that I kept putting off was the formulation of a siege and eventual frontal attack o...

In homage to my daughter's love of The Shining , and for Danny Lloyd's great child acting in the movie of the same name, you should ...

Last Saturday was "burning day" for myself and my neighbors, as we took advantage of cool temperatures and the recent rains to &qu...