While the days are slowly getting longer, the suns rays gracing us for just a few short extra minutes each day, we are still… obviously…smack dab in the middle of winter and all of the cold she brings with her. Nothing is growing outside except a few (mostly) dormant greens in our lone hoop house this season and I find…
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I have a bit of a personal post today…no gardening or homesteading here, just love and appreciation. “Love lasts when the relationship comes first.” ~Unknown Last November, I decided that it might be nice to show a little thanks for the love of my life and all the support, kindness and beauty she brings me each day by intentionally giving…
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Apparently, nature doesn’t like boxes. One can take a seed, plant it, watch it germinate & acquire its first true leaves, transplant it and continue to care for it while it s t r e t c h e s its roots, grows upwards and outwards, flowers, sets fruit and continues on its cycle. But, one cannot tame its natural…
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BIG (unrelated to garden) NEWS! I am now, as of last Monday, officially a Big Sister through Big Brothers Big Sisters! 🙂 Usually when being “matched” with a Little through Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), a Big & Little match is set up by the staff at BBBS using the information obtained in your interviews based on interests and similarities…
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Do you ever walk around your garden, harvest, weed, plant, tool around, but not really see certain aspects of what’s happening? I do. It happened with yesterdays horn worms and it happened with our pallet beds. I was sitting on our back porch (I do this a lot) and suddenly realized that our pallet beds are doing really well! Who…
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At the risk of sounding a bit…crazy…I have decided to share a little piece of my existence with you all that has absolutely nothing to do with gardening, canning, chickens or bees. Brace yourselves… I have been blessed to live my entire life in a fairly small community (~70,000 people) that is incredibly rich in history, culture and tradition. Here in…
