Cathy Wolters's Blog

So I am getting back into blogging, commenting and working on social media this week.  I had been doing great this year with keeping my commitment to blogging, up until April,  when my son came home for the summer.   It's hasn't just been my son taking up my time though.  I have had family visiti...

 The plants being outdoors has been a good thing for them overall. The gnats seem to be completely gone but there are some new pests to deal with. I went out of town for the Memorial Day weekend and had my son taking care of them.  Before I left, there were a few little holes in some of the zucc...

  The plants are getting really big and most of them are doing really well.  Having them outside has been much better for their growth and if it wasn't for some annoying pests, they would be thriving.   The plants when they were planted into large containers:            Today:   The tomato plants...

 I am writing a series of blogs about my experiences in growing an organic container garden and most recently my problems with pests. You can see the most recent post here.  So I have given up bringing the plants in the house for the time being.  The gnats are just not going away.  I have moved ...

    I love this vacuum. We used to use it all the time when we lived n our previous home. We would set it to turn on at 10 am and it would vacuum the main part of the house and helped a lot to conrol the dog hair from the one lab that we had then. It was really helpful when we had our home on the...

  I love my car. It is my favorite car out off all the cars I have had, and that is including my dream car. I had wanted a Red Cadillac CTS for years and got one about four years ago. I was really happy with it at first, but after a while I was over it.  The car I had before the Cadillac was a To...

I am writing a series of blogs about my experiences in growing an organic container garden and most recently my problems with pests. In my last two posts,I had been battling gnats, and dealing with my dogs messing with the plants.  The dogs have been staying away thanks to the bitter orange and ...

I have been writing a series of blogs about my expereiences in starting an organic container garden, and some of the problems I have run in to. One of those problems has been pesky pests. In addition to the fungas gnats another type of pest has been causing some problems. These particular pests a...

I am writing a series of blogs about my experiences in growing an organic container vegetable garden. I had been trying to get my plants healthy after being being sick and having to let them go a little bit. The tomato seedlings were a wierd kind of yellow light green color and I was tying to get...

I have heard of secondhand smoke and the dangers of that, but I had never heard of secondhand stress until hearing about it this evening on World News With Diane Saywer.  You can see the story here.  Apparently, secondhand stress is a stress response you get from being around someone else, who is...