As the temperatures are heating up, my garden is taking off – and everything in it.  The garden has taken a turn for the lush side, shall we say. (Read: full of weeds that I can’t keep up with!)
All of my heat loving crops – tomatoes, green beans and squashes – are flourishing.  My [...]

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I am a newbie to jams, jellies and preserves.  I know there are technical differences between the three.  I’ve shied away from making full blown jellies and jams because of all of the sugar involved.  I try to keep the sugar down in my recipes and combining equal parts of fruit and sugar just seemed, [...]

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Practicing contentment by remembering the graces of the week and practicing gratitude by giving.
This week we celebrated graduates, strawberries and the bit of family time we were able to sneak in.  We marvel at GBaby’s growing vocabulary and her interest in everything we’re doing.  I’m thankful for kiddie pool deliveries, for helpers, for cookies and [...]

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Stories are told of a 1-year-old me cleaning out the strawberry bed.  Like mother like daughter.  She reached in the bucket of picked berries, pulled out the biggest one in the bucket and chomped in.  I’m glad we’re finally getting some berries.   I think the Beast has finally had it’s fill. Â
(And [...]

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There are many items out on the market now that aid in the growing of tomatoes upside down.   Three years ago when we set up our garden, they were few and far between and expensive!  So we did what we are good at: we improvised.  We were among the first in our area to [...]

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Yesterday most of the country celebrated Father’s Day.  Since HandyMan works on Sundays and has Monday’s off , we celebrated Father’s Day Monday this morning.  We went strawberry picking yesterday and today we had Strawberry & Cream Cheese Crepes.  I used this recipe for the crepes.
As the second side of the crepe was cooking, [...]

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Practicing contentment by remembering the graces of the week and practicing gratitude by giving.
This week has been made possible by support from my husband and help from friends. As a bonus to the necessities of the week, it was great to have made a huge sale of candles, to be able to get fresh, inexpensive produce [...]

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This has been a crazy full week and my absence of posts is more proof of that!  I use this space to process a lot of my activities around the house, kitchen and yard.  Not much time to process this week.  I’ve been on autopilot making candles to replenish inventory after some great sales at [...]

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On Saturday, I took my candle show on the road for my first large show of the summer.  I left my house at the crack of dawn and drove into the clouds.  I arrived, found my space, set up my tent and the rain started falling.  Ugh!  I covered my tables and waited.  It continued [...]

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Practicing contentment by remembering the graces of the week and practicing gratitude by giving.

Once again, my husband and daughter continue to be huge blessings in my life.  GBaby’s smiles and HandyMan’s willingness to help out with whatever needs to be done brighten my weeks.
“Hi” and “bubbas” (bubbles) have been added to GBaby’s growing vocabulary.  Speaking [...]

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