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If you haven’t guessed already, I love vacation photos. Over the years, we have gone quite a few places, and even though it seems excessive while I am snapping the pictures, the whole family loves to look back at them all. I love having little reminders of the places and faces. Taking great photos is Read More >>
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{Photo Credit Journal-News/Pavel Slepicka} One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Andrew was just featured in his local Hillsboro, Illinois paper, The Journal News for his amazing straw bale garden he planted 3 months ago in his grandparents backyard. The above picture features Andrew standing in front of his nearly five-and-a-half foot tall tomato plants. But he’s not Read More >>
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Rain is in the forecast again for today so last night I went out and harvested a few fruits and vegetables so I could take the day off from gardening and work on getting ready for our trip to Memphis. If you’ve never had real, homegrown strawberries before, you need to put them on your Read More >>
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I spotted this recipe for Mediterranean barley salad in the online edition of L. A. Times and thought it looked pretty tasty. Lucky for me my neighbor Hulda had a jar of capers and we had some kalamata olives in the cupboard so I was able to make it. It was a little different from the Read More >>
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August is bittersweet for me. It’s the last month of summer vacation for the kids {which is both a welcome relief and a little sad, for me at least}. It’s also supposed to be the lazy days of summer, but if you’re on a mission to garden, there’s nothing lazy about it. This month while you’re Read More >>
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The Girl and I spent this morning rounding up all garden gnomes from every nook and cranny in our backyard garden. No stone, leaf, or pallet was left unturned. As of this morning we have collected a whopping 460 gnomes and $231 in cash donations! This means that so far together we have raised $4,831 Read More >>
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Yesterday was day 1 of my How to Quit Caffeine challenge. I’ll totally admit, if it wasn’t for my upcoming dental surgery and the part about tea being a natural blood thinner, I would probably just keep on trucking along drinking my 20 cups of tea a day without blinking an eye. But the way I Read More >>
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Yesterday the inevitable happened. We ran out of peanut butter. Just as I was about to toss the jar into the recycling bin, there was Lucy looking up at me with those sweet puppy dog eyes. Is peanut butter good for dogs? Because Lucy the Puggle dog cannot get enough of it. In fact anytime Read More >>
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