There was no frugal accomplishments post last week because my computer died. I’m still waiting for a new one to show up. Thanks to my eldest son, I’ve found a workaround so that I can edit photos and posts until I have a working computer again (though it takes a lot longer, so I’m glad…
March has several sales. It’s frozen foods month in the U.S., which usually means a number of frozen foods go on sale. St. Patrick’s Day on the 17th means sales on corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes. With Easter falling on April 1st this year, we will see Easter sales in late March. I plan on making…
Note: This post contains affiliate links. When I was pregnant with my first baby, money was super tight. I wondered what I really needed for the baby, and everyone would tell me the same thing, “You need everything.” “But what about __________?” I would ask. “Oh, yes, you have to have that,” they would say….
$0.56 worth of pansies cheer up this pot and I can see them from inside the house. I began sewing a birthday gift for a daughter using fabric and a pattern I had on hand. My dad had leftover scraps from his back patio/deck (which runs right into our matching stairs between our backyards) to redo…
We had beautiful, warmer than usual weather last week, and I took advantage of it, working in the garden every afternoon. I planted seeds in the garden for poppies, dwarf hollyhocks, larkspur, Armenian cucumbers, lettuce, and alpine strawberries. I mended drip irrigation lines that were broken. I transplanted parsley seedlings into new spots in the garden where…
We had the most beautiful weather all week: temperatures of 70-75ºF/21-24ºC. I opened the windows and we enjoyed fresh air in the house all week. We enjoyed lemons, Swiss chard, oregano and parsley from the garden. I enjoyed working in the garden in the record highs for this time of year. Usually, I’m still sporting long sleeves…
This post contains affiliate links. I’m zesting and juicing lemons this month from the garden. I am freezing lemon juice and zest to use throughout the year. In order to have enough space in the freezer for so much juice, we’re eating lots from the freezers. This time of year, we eat the frozen fruit from…
I love lemons. I’ve always liked them, but growing Meyer lemons, I’ve come to really love them. They’re sweeter than regular lemons, larger, juicier, and have thin peels and very few seeds. They grow large in my garden, and they are such a bright, deep yellow that between the color and the size, people think…
I used lemons from the garden this week to make lemon curd, which I used to top homemade meringues, along with pomegranate arils. I’ll be sharing this recipe later this week. I dug up and moved several plants to help them to get better sun exposure/less sun exposure (some were burning in the sun and…
This post contains affiliate links. Shortly after Christmas, a reader wrote to me about a shopaholic relative who decided to spend $1500 on one of her children right after Christmas. This relative lives on a fixed income and the reader knew that the relative was unable to afford the purchases (she was charging everything). She…
I cut and dried oregano from the garden. I also harvested beets and lemons. I dug and planted more tiny bushes started by tip layering in new spots in the garden. I cut roses from the garden before pruning the rose bushes. I juiced lemons from the garden and made a double batch of lemonade. We enjoyed…
I cut roses from the garden to enjoy inside. I worked in the garden all week pruning, fertilizing, and planting. I sowed seeds for poppies, spinach, larkspur, Swiss chard, green onions, nasturtiums, Bells of Ireland, and snow peas in the garden. I dug several more bushes that I started by tip layering and transplanted them…