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I’ve done some pretty stupid things in my lifetime. Honestly. A shocking amount. Cutting my bangs myself? Stupid. Trying to clean my stainless steel stove with a Junior SOS pad? Stupid. Scraping a chunk of that jelly-like skin off my cornea while applying eyeliner? Rather stupid. But I can say, without any hesitation that the stupidest thing I’ve ever done is ripping apart my entire backyard and redoing it all myself. (as explained in my post on the subject) I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever do anything like that again. Why will I never do it again? Because although I sometimes do stupid things, I’m not stupid. I will however continue to chop wood, grow my own vegetables, rescue feral cats and fix my own car. The money I save on these things I will use to pay someone to cut my bangs.

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Plum Tomatoes
Saucy!

by Karen on May 8, 2013

Good bye back fat, hellooooooo gardening. Welcome to the season of my sport. People tend to think gardening isn’t really a sport, but anyone who has back fat knows differently. Gardening is hard WORK. Especially the beginning stages of it when you’re planting and raking and hoeing. That’s with an e. Although I’m sure hoing [...]

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My Backyard in Style at Home.
I can show it to you now.

by Karen on May 5, 2013

Yesterday was a very sad day indeed. While I was checking out at the grocery store I noticed that the new issue of Style at Home was out. Which meant the old issue of Style at Home was off the shelves. The old issue you see featured my backyard in it. With the magazine off [...]

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An Art of Doing Stuff Video Diary
by Bogs!

by Karen on April 28, 2013

Last summer, the folks at Bogs sent me a GoPro Camera to capture some video of what I do around here on a typical day. So I strapped it on and went about my business. After months of waiting to see how it turned out, the video is done. The Bogs creative team did a [...]

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Field Trip!
Small Farm Animal Auction

by Karen on April 22, 2013

  A couple of weekends ago the fella and I were deciding what to do for the day.  Actually that’s a lie.  I’ve started off with a lie.  We weren’t lounging around the house deciding what to do like a happily ever after couple.  The fella was off somewhere doing something and I was off [...]

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Thinking of Keeping Chickens?
Here’s what you need to know.

by Karen on April 8, 2013

Every few weeks someone emails me to ask what’s involved with keeping chickens.  So for everyone out there who has been thinking about maybe getting chickens but isn’t really sure of what’s involved … this post is for YOU.    

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2 Years of owning Backyard Chickens.
The highlights.

by Karen on April 3, 2013

It was almost 2 years ago that I woke up on Easter morning to find a box of day old chicks on my kitchen counter. I pretty much took it all in stride.  You know.  Acted real cool about it.   I know I look a tiny bit “alarmed” in the picture here.  It kind [...]

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How to Make Paper Pots

by Karen on April 1, 2013

  If you start your own seeds or do any sort of transplanting I have 3 words for you … ALERT!  ALERT!  ALERT!    That means you should pay attention to what I’m about to say.  Sometimes it also means a tornado is coming, but in this case it does not. I got a fancy [...]

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How to Start Running.

by Karen on March 26, 2013

  The fella ran the Around the Bay Road Race in Hamilton this past weekend. He ran and he ran and he ran, 30 kilometres (18.5 miles) through the streets, up and down hills, past very tempting hotdog stands. He did the race last year too, but as I explained in a post, it was [...]

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How to Plan Your Garden
An online tool.

by Karen on March 25, 2013

I mentioned last year that I used the Mother Earth News Garden Planner to map out my Front Yard Vegetable garden. It was great. A useful tool that I figured I only needed to use once. Garden’s planned. Done. Not so. You see you’re not supposed to plant the same plants in the same area [...]

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It’s Maple Syrup Season

by Karen on March 18, 2013

By this time last year  Maple Syrup season was over and done with. This year it’s still going strong, so today I am making maple syrup.     While I tend to my syrup like a good little pioneer, here are some numbers to explain the mystery of 100% pure Maple Syrup a little bit. [...]

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5 Plants to Plant

by Karen on March 6, 2013

3 huge sweet potatoes, a few handfuls of fingerling and baby potatoes, 1 overly ripe acorn squash and 3 sprouting onions. That’s what I have left of the summer garden haul. Well, that and a whole rack of canned goods. It is now time to start all over again. With only 133 square feet, or [...]

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Today I am busy

by Karen on February 19, 2013

Today I was going to write a post about doing something but now I’m not, because I’m busy doing something else. That happens every once in a while. And as it happens I’m doing something I’ve already told you about in the past, otherwise I’d do what I always do.  Do a post on what [...]

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Although I have remained unscathed, I am not responsible if you hurt yourself while cleaning your gutters or trying to tame a chipmunk.