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 [...]

Yes, making tortellini is hard. Deal with it. It’s no harder than living in a stomach and shooting out through a birth canal and you all got through that, so put your tortellini mitts on and meet me in the second paragraph. Good. I’m glad you took a leap of faith and decided to meet [...]

Welcome back class. Did you find your pasta maker?  Good.  This is how you use it.  (either a hand model or electric) For your viewing pleasure, a short video to help you understand what I’m talking about. See? Easy. Couldn’t have taken more than 5 minutes. And the best thing about a pasta rolling machine [...]

O.K. everyone on their feet. I want you to reach your arms up as high as you can, straight up over your head. Stretch all the way up through your fingertips. Now widen your stance, put your hands on your hips and twist your body around. Feel your back stretch. Good. You’re now ready for [...]

Saturday I head to Niagara Falls, Canada to take part in the Seedy Saturday event organized by Linda Crago of Tree & Twig fame. I will be speaking about ripping out my front yard and putting in a vegetable garden. The trials the tribulations the inquiring looks … the kids stealing tomatoes. I’ll also talk [...]

The title of this post is lie number one of a litany of lies to be found on the Internet. You are NOT going to learn how to rewire a vintage phone. You are not. I know this from experience. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself as I am want to do when [...]

It’s cold. And snowy. And you’re craving the sun. There’s no green, no warmth and life is no fun. You cry to the skies, Let the sun peak out. You try to keep hope, but in truth you doubt. You know winter is here by the frost on the panes, But it’s spring that you [...]

  I know all of my American readers are probably busy doing lunges and power squats getting ready for that much loved once yearly event, Black Friday.  But I’d like to take a moment out to discuss Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was several weeks ago in Canada.  It was pretty much the same as always.  Set the [...]

When someone sends me an Ask Karen question I answer it with the lightening speed of a sloth eating a brick of saltwater taffy. So when Leslie sent me a message last winter about how to open a bag that’s sewn closed with string … I got to work.  I got to work cleaning the [...]

I learned how to play Chess recently.  More specifically I learned how to stare at a board and move little men until someone said “Yeah.  You’re allowed to do that”. You can’t beat a good game for killin’ time and havin fun.   Solitaire, Hide and Seek, Pictionary, Uno, Keep-away, Pin the Bandaid on the [...]

It’s time for another episode of the much beloved series Will They Eat it?! Today’s food was requested by “Holly”.   Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. They’re chickens. There’s no predicting.    On the next episode Norma discovers something on a stick, Walnut wanders around, Cuddles acts cute and Cheez Whiz gets asked to [...]

I have chickens. Chickens eat anything. Yet, I continue to post the series “Will They Eat It”? And you keep falling for it. Of course they’ll eat it. They’re chickens. Over the course of the year I’ve owned these chickens they’ve eaten everything from live crickets to one of those pedicure toe separators. And the [...]