? When can you plant where you live?
I built a free little tool for exactly this question — The Garden Almanac. Type in your ZIP code and it gives you your USDA hardiness zone, your average last and first frost dates, and a planting calendar tuned to your spot — when to start seeds, set out transplants, and sow. It runs right in your browser, no account needed. Find your frost dates & planting calendar →
I took the camera out into the yard the other evening, the fifth of July. Early July is when the flower beds finally hit their stride here in Neenah, and the low light at the end of the day is the best time to catch them. Here are a few of the lilies and cannas…
Some traditions you don’t realize you’re going to miss until you’re standing in the middle of one for the last time. This was the final trick-or-treat Halloween event at the High Cliff State Park Campground, held on October 18th, 2025 — and the campers went all out to send it off in style. We got…
Today we have a very special Dog of the Day for 11/19/2011. This is Scarlett, and we’re sharing her in loving memory. “Scarlett — Feb 3, 1996 – Nov 18, 2011” We are so deeply sorry for the loss of your beautiful Scarlett. Nearly sixteen years — think about that for a moment. Sixteen years…
Dixie is a 4 year old doxie that is my daughter!I love her more than anything.she is very playful love a tennis ball (and loves to eat them toolol) she loves people and is very sweet.she hates and i mean hates a bath,loves her daddy and me o and anything shaped like a ball lol….
“Bailee thinks she’s human. She is so loveable with those eyes and rules the household, only allowing us to live here. She has to have a toy in her mouth each time she goes outside and forgets to bring them back in, so her humans have to get a bag and retrieve them before mowing…
Smoked pulled pork is one of my favorite things to make. Over a lot of batches I have settled into a method that turns out pork that just falls apart, and here is how I do it, start to finish. The cut Pulled pork comes from the shoulder, and either a pork butt or a…