I picked more lemons from the garden. I gave the baby a haircut. I used Recyclebank points to get a free two-year magazine subscription to Better Homes and Gardens. Our bank decided to start charging $5 per paper statement. We changed to get online statements, for which they do not charge. I have been trying…
I cut daffodils from the garden for our table. I dug dandelions from the lawn. Usually, we only have a few dandelions and I dig them out, but this year we have quite a large number. I still dug them out with a trowel. My dad bought a Dragon Toes agave plant that had…
The phone bill came yesterday. It was significantly larger than normal. I have no long distance, no caller id, and no call waiting, and I’ve saved a significant amount not paying for each of those over the years. The increase was enough to make the change to getting a cell phone. I haven’t had a…
Dress: Amazon — Earrings: homemade–Shoes: Naturalizer Losing weight is one of the most common goals that people have. It’s a big business, too, with lots of ads designed to make you think that you can’t lose weight without buying new things: exercise clothing, exercise videos, diet plans, weight-loss pills, and more. But you don’t have to…
I planted seeds for Armenian cucumbers, red noodle beans, pumpkins, lettuce, basil and sunflowers in the garden. I made lemonade from our lemons. I cut arugula and picked lettuce, nasturtium flowers, and radishes from the garden. I found eggs for $0.79 a dozen at Sam’s Club (in the 5-dozen package). I bought 10 dozen. The children played…
It’s in the upper-80’s here (about 30º C) and I’m spending every possible minute outside, working in the garden. I am working to make a more abundant garden this year, with more food and flowers than ever before. While the front yard is a white garden, the backyard is where I plant flowers of several…
It was so incredibly beautiful this week. I cut daffodils from the garden for the table. We celebrated a simple birthday celebration for a child at home. I harvested radishes, cilantro, snow peas, green onions, and Swiss chard from the garden. We went through clothing, packing up cold weather clothes and taking out summer clothes,…
I watched the bees working on the apple tree blossoms. I sowed seeds for lettuce, Swiss chard, alpine strawberries, New Zealand Spinach, nasturtiums, zucchini, butternut squash, radishes, and artichokes. I planted some asparagus crowns in the garden. My son and I took apart some old tomato cages and flattened them. We had made them from…
Winter originally made this dress for Christmas, using some fabric that was given to me by a reader a few years ago. She was inspired by the dress Queen Elizabeth wears in “A Royal Night Out.” She used a pattern she already had, but then made lots of changes, as she was…
We have radishes, lemons, Swiss chard, beets, a tiny bit of asparagus, arugula and several herbs ripe in the garden. We should have snow peas, lettuce, and spinach lettuce ready later in the month. Here are my shopping plans for the month. We’ll eat mostly from the pantry and freezers. Sam’s Club:…
Dorsett Golden Apple Blossoms I transplanted a potted pomegranate tree that I had bought last fall into the raised bed (where the espaliered apples used to be). It can get larger in this spot than in a pot and give us more fruit. I transplanted the lettuce seedlings from the same pot into the raised…
Snow Peas in Bloom I picked lemons from the garden. I cut a few spears of asparagus and a little lettuce from the garden. I cut Swiss chard from the garden. Dorsett Golden Apple Blossoms We removed ten non-producing apple trees from the garden. I have one remaining apple tree now (Dorsett Golden, pictured above)….