AT THE WATER’S EDGE:
LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
Journey with Me
Hi there! My name is Dana. I created this space as a place to share the things I learn along this journey I call life. I am a Jesus follower, wife, twin mom and dog mom. I work in marketing/sales analytics and I’m a sort of Jane of All Trades, interested in all things nature, gardening, cooking, crafting, traveling, exploring and learning new things. This blog is a conglomeration of my interests, hobbies, life and life lessons. Thanks for stopping by!
Latest Blog Posts
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I learned something interesting about carrots the other day. Apparently, they are biennial plants, which are only supposed to flower every other year. So, carrot seeds that you buy for your garden should not grow into flowering plants. I found this fact particularly interesting since I planted carrots for the first time last year, and
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I made up a new recipe tonight. I think it was loosely based on a couple of recipes I’d heard of from friends and family. Mostly, I was looking for a way to use up some ground turkey meat that I had in the refrigerator. I ended up mixing it with bow tie pasta and
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Tom has been on a bit of a health kick recently, and he has told me that he wants to start eating more healthfully. Since I am usually the one cooking dinner, that meant I had to think through my usual menus and try to cut out some of the recipes that call for a
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This blog post was inspired by a conversation with my mom a while back. She was faced with a situation where someone she didn’t know was being incredibly rude to her. She decided to “turn the other cheek” and repay the person with a friendly reply. Later on, of course, she thinks of all of
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I’m growing chipmunks now!! Gardening is hard. Every year I am learning new things, but it also seems that each year presents new challenges. My first year of gardening, the bunnies ate all of my peas. So, we put up a fence, and I had not seen the bunnies back until this year. The fence
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I decided to be brave tonight and try something new for dinner: Eggplant Parmesan. Some friends of ours made it for us not too long ago (although, a vegan version), and it was actually quite good. I wasn’t sure that I had ever actually had eggplant before. For whatever reason, it just always sounded like
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This past weekend, I got the chance to reconnect with an old friend of mine — we were best friends when I was in elementary school, living in Texas, but it had been about 10 years since we last saw each other. She and her husband (who I’d never met) came over for dinner this
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Summer is in full swing, and you know what that means: it’s berry season! I’ve actually made it to the farmer’s market the past couple of weeks, and they just started offering blueberries there. We had some friends coming over this past weekend and I wanted to make a fun summery dessert, and I thought
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Somebody keeps eating my corn; I don’t think I’ll be getting any this year.. It’s happening again. Someone is snacking in my garden. Snacking on tender green shoots that should be growing into corn, beans and sunflowers; snacking on the tops of carrots; snacking on peas; and even snacking on a potato plant. I’ve been
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Ahh..this is the life! I’ve been thinking for a while now that I need to write up an RA update, but things have been busy around here, and I just haven’t had time! Some of my “school year” commitments have subsided now that it’s summertime, but warm weather also means we are traveling more and
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