AT THE WATER’S EDGE:
LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
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Rheum Vocabulary
For quite some time now, the online #rheum community has been creating their own language, including made up words and terms to describe our experiences with rheumatoid disease. Quite often these terms are punny and mildly humorous. Other times, these terms are downright hilarious. As I’ve already stated that I believe laughter is often the…
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Halloween Party – 2012
This is what my sink looked like Thursday night when I wasalmost done with my cooking! It’s hard to believe but we just had our 9th Annual Halloween party! Due to some other conflicts we had to have the party on a Friday night this year, which was a little chaotic. Wednesday was my cleaning…
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Painting Pumpkins
It’s hard to believe that it’s already that time of year again – time for the beauty of the autumn leaves, the crisp air, cider mills, and of course: pumpkins. I had some of my own pumpkins grow in my garden this year. Unfortunately, they came July thru September – a little early for my…
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Gardening 101: Ten Lessons Learned
This week marks three years since we’ve been in our house. That means I’ve now had three years of gardens, and with those three years of experience has come a lot of learning! I didn’t really know anything about gardening, and still feel like I don’t…but I do know that I’ve learned some things along…
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Garden Inspirations
I realized that I’ve been really slacking on the blog this month. I don’t know what it is, but I just haven’t felt the urge to write and I’ve been lacking in ideas for topics. So, naturally, I turned to Twitter hoping to find someone willing to offer a suggestion. Sure enough, Gina came through…
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Digging for Buried Treasure
Can you identify? I think it’s just some variety of green chili pepper… My garden is not doing so well. I’ll be honest. I’m disappointed. The heat, and my sporadic watering, coupled with the deer and squash bugs have left my garden lacking in produce. The deer have eaten my Swiss chard again, so I…
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Oh, Deer! (and other tales from the garden)
I have had a new visitor to my vegetable garden this year: deer. We have a field-ish type area behind our house, scattered with trees, and there are deer that live back there. From time to time we’ll see them in the backyard, but until this year, they’d stayed clear of my garden. A couple…
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Squishing the Squash Bug
I have squash growing in my garden this year. I’m not sure what type, though. They’re volunteers of sorts, though I really hoped they’d be there. Last year, after Halloween, I discarded all of our pumpkins and various squash and gourds into my garden to see what would happen. I had quite a variety last…
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Cooking with Swiss Chard
I decided to grow Swiss chard in my garden this year. I’m not exactly sure why, but I think this is what happened: I went to the farmer’s market sometime last summer and was lured in by the bright stalks of the multi-colored Swiss chard one of the vendors was selling. It was so pretty…
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Summer Vacation Part 3: The Cruise – Ports of Call
To follow up on my previous posts (read Part 1 here and Part 2 here), I wanted to share with you our experiences at each of the ports we stopped at on our cruise. It was a “7-Day Western Caribbean” cruise through Carnival, with four stops along the way: Cozumel, Belize, Roatan and Grand Cayman.…
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