Reflection is good before we get down to our winter tasks. At the end of every year, we like to sit by a warm fire and talk about the things that were good and the things that were not so good. This year, the madman found so much good we almost forgot about the not…
Spring is here. Time to get outside and get dirty. First things first, do not plant any warm weather crops in the ground. It is still much too early for that. But, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be out in the garden. Around here, the weather seems to have warmed up. The snow has gone,…
The madman’s definition of a tool is “something that makes a task easier.” The better the tool, the easier the task. We consider our seed catalogs tools, but now let’s consider the other tools hanging on walls, sitting in buckets or lying around in various spots – NOT misplaced, says the madman. Mid-winter,…