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As I mention on my SHOPPING page, drive selectively and with pre-planning. For a day of errands, plan your route effectively. Know the places you must visit and work the other stops into the route along the way. Also consider making the heaviest purchase last, if possible. At all times, try to keep your vehicle … Continue reading »
Gardeners! For Peat’s Sake ~ say no to peat. As a lover of nature and all things ‘bio diverse’, as soon as I learned about the damage that draining and removing peat bogs does to our global environment, I forcefully changed my gardening habit away from using peat. This requires reading labels of soil mixes … Continue reading »
I wanted to share a chuckle with you today. Happy Spring! [Randomly sourced images off Google]
I marvel at the simple wisdom in the words of a friend who recently shared that she’d read how vegetarians have been found to be more healthy than the rest of the general population not necessarily because they DON’T eat meat but rather because they DO eat loads of vegetables: steamed, sauteed, raw, roasted, baked … Continue reading »
I enjoy many benefits from cleaning up my garden in springtime, rather than in the autumn. Cutting away dead plant matter just in time to find tips of spring bulbs poking their brave heads through the barely thawed, frozen ground leaves plenty of seed-heads for birds to scavenge through to uncover meals of seeds. In … Continue reading »
Valentine’s Day is not reserved only for couples and romantics. Anyone can have fun preparing a fast and easy meal for starting the day off with a tug of the heart. Whether it’s for your kids or your parents, your significant other or your best friend, or your niece, cousin, or grandmother – these simple … Continue reading »
Reblogged from DirtNKids Blog: Waste is rampant in America. It’s a problem, I believe, of abundance coupled with busy-ness, resulting in big, big piles of trash. One day, we may be mining those landfills; natural resources are being used up faster than they can replenish. Some people are trash renegades. They not only do their … Continue reading »
Reblogged from Farmhouse38: Roosters are not allowed in our town, and when one of my neighbors decided to test the neighborhood’s tolerance-level, it turned out to be pretty low. The villagers promptly arrived with torches and pitchforks. Folks don’t take kindly to 7 am rooster calls in these parts. So, I’ve been feeling pretty darn … Continue reading »
