Trimming Your Bush – the Most Painful Gardening Task
The end of July is bananas in the garden. All the sun sluts (tomatoes, melons, beans, cukes, etc.) are going crazy, and the spring plants (peas, lettuce, and most greens) are going tits up....
Meal plan for July 28th – August 3rd
Oh lawdy, Jack and I had the best trip to visit my friend Anne. 90% of our visit revolved around food, and that always makes me happy. The other 10% was visiting and laughing....
Diez
Isn’t it funny how you can just know? Just know somehow that a person is right for you? I first met Troy when I was 17, and he was in his 20’s. He was...
Mid July Garden Tour
Some of these photos have also been sent out via Instagram. Click here to start following me! For fun, check out the tour I did this time last month, and you’ll be shocked at...
Why I Took Up Smoking For My Health
I have had a lot of jobs in my life. I’ve been working since I was 14, and have worked in hospitality, restaurants, state government, a hair salon, corporate, and non-profit work. And there...
Meal plan for July 6-13th
Anyone want to join me in a cleanse this week? No, not a weird kind where you drink juice with cayenne pepper or some weird shit like that. This is a cleanse for people...
Meal plan for June 30th – July 6th
I am so freaking over strawberry season right now. Don’t get me wrong, I love strawberries. I’m happy to eat them, cook with them, and make ice cream out of them, but for the...
Meal plan for June 23rd – 29th
We be jammin! Get your jam on. Yesterday, I hosted “jam academy” in my kitchen for two friends. Both had expressed desire to learn the sweet skills of making jam, and I figured strawberry...
Mid June Garden Tour – 2014
Oh late spring, almost summer time. This is a time of promise, when you think you can grow anything. Things are looking gorgeous and lush, and you feel like the world’s greenest thumb. Spring...
Meal plan for June 16th – 22nd
Jack has become obsessed with comic books of all kinds in the last year. Since March, his interest has bounced back between Calvin and Hobbes (I’m pretty convinced he is actually Calvin…a crazy, hyper,...
Meal plan for June 9th-15th
Phew, I survived the baby shower on Saturday! My friend Krista is having a little boy (Ryder) who will be joining us in mid-August. In the only way I know how to celebrate something,...
Three Quilts in Three Weeks
In one of the fifteen thousand ways that Troy and I are different, how we look at challenging tasks is towards the top of the stack. Troy will focus on all the negative parts...
