The Joy of Christmas Cookies Purple Mittens, Green Trees, Sparkling White Stars, Blue Snowflakes, The Sweetness of sugar and Anise extract adding a layer of licorice to the mix. Finding Grandma’s old recipe fills the kitchen with family for the joy making cut out cookies. Rich, thick, brown syrup made from sugar cane, Ginger spice…
After sleeping in this morning, (I think I deserved it), I woke to read a blog by someone I follow who writes posts on education. He wrote about the movie,”It’s a Wonderful Life,” and the connection it shows to schools and their role in the community. I enjoyed the post, and you can read it…
Seed-spiration My seed buying for next year has already started! I’m only five or six months ahead of time! We are planning a prairie garden for a space behind our barn where we used to plant pumpkins, melons, and one year, even corn! My husband and I found that although we both like to plant,…
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Poinsettia’s are some of my favorite plants. Cee’s FOTO Challenge for today is on this lovely specimen. The holiday season really doesn’t start in my home until I have a poinsettia or two livening up the decor in my home. Usually, we get two to three huge plants from Sam’s Club for about $15.00 each!…
Originally, today, I was going to write about my final numbers for monarch tagging this year. But, in doing a quick search I found that I had already written about that. It was just on my mind because I submitted my tagging information and mailed my unused tags 5/50 back to Monarch Watch this morning….
This started out to be a Poetry Friday post. I’ve written many color poems, some formerly posted on my blog, but I thought it would be cool to do a “place” poem. As I took another road trip yesterday (there’s been a lot of them lately), I noticed many place markers that I could write…
I wonder……. Are gifted people ever spontaneous or always intentional? I seem to be the latter. My oldest is the latter. My middle son is the latter but wants to be the former. My youngest is the former. So, I guess the answer from my own observations is they are both. Recently, over coffee, I…
It is a Saturday morning following a week of exciting sports events, road trips, and final exams. There has not been a lot of time this fall for creativity for anyone in my family. Woodworking My husband, who is a woodworker and crafter of fine furniture, has been using his free time to finish restoring…
We’ve been doing a lot of road tripping lately, my husband and I. It takes me back to the early days of our marriage, before we had the boys. We call this B.C. – Before Charlie, our first born. In those early days, we often travelled on weekends to flea markets, museums, antique stores, junk…