LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
**This post is a part of the first annual RA Blog Week, spurred on by RADiabetes. For more information and the full list of prompts, click here. RA Blog Week Day 5 Prompt: “Exercise and RA – write about your favorite exercise. What do you like about it, and what keeps you going? Maybe you like to…
Now that it’s nearing the end of August, I suppose it’s time for a 2015 garden update. One of the things I’ve learned to love about gardening is how each year is so different. The first few years, I found this very frustrating: what grew well one year didn’t grow well the next. However, I’ve…
This is it. The one you’ve all been waiting for. At least, it’s what I had been waiting for my whole pizza-loving life. Grilled pizza. I’d heard of it, but being a grilling novice I had put off trying it until last year. I’m glad I didn’t wait any longer. Tom is normally my grill…
Here it is: the latest creation from my apron obsession. A harvesting apron! Somehow in my quest for cute apron ideas I stumbled upon this post with an old pattern from the 1940s for a gathering “basket” apron — you know, what every woman needs for easy, hands-free gathering of berries or kindling. I may…
I have a confession to make. I always disliked Chicken Pot Pie. Only, I’m not sure I ever actually ate it to know that I didn’t like it. It was more the concept. I mean, meat pie? I don’t even like cooked fruit pies (much to my pie-loving mother’s chagrin and dismay). Plus, it usually…
I suppose it’s time for a 2015 Spring Garden Update. I feel like this has really been an ideal spring for gardening. The snow stopped in a timely fashion. We’ve had a few hot days, plenty of rain and generally weather on par for the season. I started my tomato seeds (and a few others)…
My dad just told me today that my grandmother used tolook for the crocuses each spring and announce theirarrival — I wasn’t sure I had any anymore, but I found thislittle guy in the front yard today! Spring is my favorite season. Summer is my favorite, too. In fact, so is fall. But, I think…
Garden 2014 I’ve been a slacker on the garden blog this year. Or, perhaps on the blog in general. But fear not: the 2014 garden update has arrived. Overall, it has been a good garden year. I started my tomato and pepper seeds in early March indoors. I did a little test to see if…
I just finally gave away my 14lb bowling ball from high school. I can’t bowl at all now, let alone with that thing! There was a sermon I heard at church recently about unmet expectations. Sometimes (okay, more like always!) we expect one thing out of life and before we know it, we find ourselves in a place that…
My best Brandywine tomato of the year – just harvested! Now that it’s fall, I feel like my garden should be winding down; but, in fact, I have quite a bit still coming in. In part, this is due to the fact that my tomatoes did not begin to ripen until very late in the…