Passions I can't deny
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2010
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign” the song sung by the Five Man Electric Band came to my mind last night as I took a stroll by the river at sunset. If you’ve not heard this song from those ole hippy days – here it is.
Anyway, back to my walk. I was walking on the bike [...]
Posted in Ramblings, Recipes, gardening, preserving, tomatoes on Jul 17th, 2010
I’ve been busy drying tomatoes and putting up our blackberries and blueberries. Before I write more about that, Kristina had asked what the tomatoes look like when they are dried. I’ve never looked at them side by side, and thought it would be neat to see how they compare.
Here is our favorite to dry – [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, gardening on Jul 16th, 2010
We got the news today, oh boy – our elm tree is dying of Dutch Elm Disease. As Master Gardeners we thought that was the case, but wanted to get some expert opinions. We met with two different arborists this week and they both came to the same conclusion – she needs to come down. [...]
Sidd, my ole guy going on 15, went to the doctor several weeks ago. Dr. Jill recommended that we have a “Senior panel” done on him since he’s gone from a husky 17 pounder to 14 pounds. Now, that happened over six years, but he’s lost almost a pound in the last two years. Otherwise, [...]
Well, it finally rained! I’ve never wanted rain so badly in my whole life (I may be exaggerating a bit). Dave and I harvested at the church garden yesterday morning instead of today. We thought it might be a tad less soupy then it would be today if we ended up with more rain.
Harvesting in [...]
Posted in Ramblings, soap making, tutorials on Jun 28th, 2010
Before I write about lessons learned, I wanted to thank everyone who entered my giveaway of the Eco Craft book. Janice of Flushing, New York won it. It will be in the mail to her tomorrow. Stay tuned for more craft book giveaways.
Also, we finally got rain last night – a whole inch! It was [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Jun 20th, 2010
Happy Father’s Day, Dad!
I was looking for the best photo I could find that would describe my Dad. Of course, my favorite is the one with Dad and me taken by Mom. Dad and I were both dressed for church in front of my 1970 Camero. However, since this tribute is about him, I wanted [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, gardening on Jun 11th, 2010
I mentioned in an earlier post that we have a slope garden that has been a problem child. In the spring of 2008 we decided to make a garden on the slope just above the main veggie garden. Not only would Dave have less grass to mow, but this garden would slow down the rain [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, body care products on May 30th, 2010
I have been fortunate to win really neat stuff lately. Sew,mama,sew hosted a Giveaway Day May 17 with lots of blog owners giving away homemade stuff. I was lucky and won this great button keyring from Aimee at greentreegoods. She makes all kinds of neat things out of buttons.
Thanks again Aimee!
I also won this MMS [...]
I believe we can learn from a variety of teachers. For me, gardening has been a great teacher of late. From that love I have learned to accept those things I can’t control which included last year’s cherry-less trees.
Since my blueberry picking will soon begin, I wanted to share one of the lessons I have [...]
