I realize this isn’t the sort of thing I normally do.  Not the sort of thing I normally write about.  But, I’ve never been one to follow convention.  And quite frankly, like you, I am not one dimensional.  I am human. Today is Holocaust remembrance day. It’s one of those official days that doesn’t get [...]

I’m right in the middle of a LOT of work right now.  It involves tearing up of the lawn, planting things, removing dirt from my nose (the inside) and clomping around in my very own Bogs boots, actually. So let’s get right to it shall we?  No one wants to read through a bunch of [...]

Wayyyy back around Christmas I took some time off to partake in my latest adventure. Relaxing. As many of you may remember, relaxing consisted of knitting a sweater, perfecting homemade pizzas, reading and … teaching myself to screen print these tea towels.  I also spent a little time looking up the *exact* definition of relaxing. [...]

So you wanna start a blog do you?  So did I. Congratulations! You’ve started your blog!  So did I. Things are going well, people who don’t know your middle name are reading your posts … you think you might wanna start to run advertising.  So did I. Only, when I started my blog and decided [...]

I’ve discovered I’m kind of in love with Photoshop.  Which is proof that you really can go from hate to love.  There’s hope for Brussells Sprouts in my life yet. Photoshop has what might be referred to as a bit of a learning curve.  When you first get the software and fiddle around with it [...]

So you wanna know how to make perfect French Fries, do you?  Yeah.  So did I.  For about the past 20 years. I will tell you now, that I have tried every method, potato and oil temperature known to mankind in my quest to create THE PERFECT FRENCH FRY.  I’ve come close many times. In [...]

Because the people at Bogs are so nice and because I am so nice and because you are so nice … I’m giving away a pair of boots. There’s just niceness all around.  If you don’t count wars and famines and such. I got my first pair of Bogs boots last fall.  I’ve done quite [...]

I have to preface this post by saying I have not, ever, in my life … grown a sweet potato.  Have never even thought about doing it actually. Which, according to the rules of the Internet, makes me the perfect person to tell you how to do it. I normally don’t show/do/present/teach you things that I haven’t done myself [...]

I used to spend a lot of time watching cooking shows. Not the kind on the Food Network … you don’t actually see a whole lot of cooking on the Food Network for some reason.  No, I’d watch PBS.  Classics like Julia Child, Jacque Pepin, the Galloping Gourmet and Lidia Bastianich.  THESE are the kind [...]

    Surprise!  NO real menu this week.  Which is kind of stupid, because THIS of all weeks is the time I probably *should* be making a weekly menu. This week, you see … is FRONT YARD VEGETABLE GARDEN week.  Over the past 3 weeks I’ve been writing and typing and photographing until my fingernails [...]

From me … and the chickens.            

  There are very few things in life that are  more emotionally draining or physically taxing than attending a marathon.  And by attending I mean watching one.   As the supporter of a spouse who performs various strenuous activites for fun, I can tell you first hand, it’s a struggle. Between the weight lifting and [...]