Pope's Hill
Pope's Hill
Project D.E.E.P. Tutoring Programs Registration!
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Our registration event is being held on Saturday September 12, 2009.
If you have questions or concerns about the event, our policies, cost, or eligibility, please email anthony@projectdeep.org or call our office and speak to any of our staff at (617) 635-5027.
If you cannot attend, or if you decide to enroll after our event, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can do our best to enroll your child in our programs. Seats are competitive and highly sought after, but we will do everything we can to find a spot for any students who want to enroll. Read more
Latin Beat
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After the heavy rain of last Saturday, Hubby was back out in the yard harvesting his tomatoes. The cherry tomatoes in the white five-gallon buckets, are turning red very quickly. We are eating them at lunch and at dinner. We refused, however, to put them in our cereal. Even though the “store-bought†tomatoes look as nice as ours do, they do not taste half so good as ours. Read more
Pineapple-Marshmallow-Whipped Cream Dessert
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Hubby and I noticed that very few people were walking on our local streets because the heat of the past week has been very difficult to bear. We bring everything that we can into the living room, which is air-conditioned. I have even gone through the Christmas cards from the past two years. I have more time now to enjoy them and love to reread the notes that the people enclosed in their cards. I keep all the photos that people send. Then five years later, I gather those photos and return them to the senders. They probably haven’t seen them since they originally sent them out. Read more
Fields of tall corn
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I haven’t seen fields of wheat but Hubby and I certainly saw fields of tall corn when we rode through Virginia recently. Our corn around Boston is maturing at a much slower rate because of the cold and rainy weather conditions in May and June. Hubby, however, has already begun harvesting tomatoes from the five-gallon pots on the side porch. The tomatoes on the plants in the ground behind the grape vine are still green. Our own tomatoes taste so much better than those that we buy in the stores. Read more
Summer Sunflowers
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Hubby is so proud of two of his sunflowers. The one near the front stairs is about as tall as I am and has a huge flower. The one out by the side stairs is smaller but just as pretty. In the garden outside St. Christopher’s Church, someone is tending to two gigantic sunflowers. They are a joy to see as we look out the church windows. In our own yard, the clematis plant, between our two sunflowers, has many beautiful purple flowers on it. Some of our hybrid tea roses have begun to flower again. That is why we always purchase hybrid teas. Read more
Family Birthday
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The hot and humid weather of the past couple of weeks has fostered an abundant crop of weeds in our yard. Hubby and I try to pull the weeds away from the rose bushes and the clematis. Hubby has about six sunflowers growing in the yard. Of course, the tallest one is right near the front stairs and will probably whack anyone in the face as soon as the huge flower head opens. Read more
The Tall Ships
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I finally was able to get outside to finish putting plants into our two whiskey barrels. As I turned over the soil in the larger of the barrels, a parade of the little bugs that ate me alive about a month ago started pouring over the side of the barrel. Hubby ran inside the house and grabbed a can of Raid. He sprayed both barrels so I had no more problems. The larger barrel has pink geraniums in the center, with various shades of pink impatiens around the edge of the barrel. The smaller barrel already had red geraniums so I put white impatiens around the edge of that barrel. Read more
"Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today"
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I think back to some of the flowers that I knew as a child: the hollyhocks, the Japanese lanterns, the bleeding hearts, and the balsams (my grandfather’s favorite). Each fall, we would pop open the seed pods of the balsams and save the seeds for the following year. I still can smell the pungent odor of the geraniums when my fourth-grade teacher would pinch off the dead leaves from the plants in our classroom. Read more
Neponset Health Center teams up with Neighborhood Health Plan
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Starting Friday July 10th Neponset Health Center will be hosting a health insurance table hosted by a Neighborhood Health Plan representative. Neighborhood Health Plan will be in the lobby of the Neponset Health Center every other Friday from 9am-2pm with information on the health insurance plans that are available to everyone. The Neighborhood Health Plan rep. will be able to answer any questions that you may have about their plans and will help find out which plan will work best for you. They will also have FREE giveaways for people who come in for information. Read more
Lantern Festival
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I think back to some of the flowers I knew as a child: the hollyhocks, the Japanese lanterns, the bleeding hearts. I don’t remember impatiens, which are so prevalent now. In my mind, I can still picture one of my teachers as she pinched dead leaves from the geraniums in our classroom. I still remember the pungent geranium odor. Read more
