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One of my favorite food things to do when we lived in Mid Coast Maine was to visit the Farmer’s Market in Rockland on Thursdays to buy double chocolate rye cookies. The cookies, sold by Brazen Baking Company and were such an unusual treat, that I practically leapt out of the car as soon as Read More >>
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Have you started your seeds yet for this year’s garden? I planted a few petunia, leeks, onion and artichoke seeds a few weeks ago. Yesterday I started thinning seedlings. Well, the petunia seedlings anyway, I’ll wait to thin the leek and onion seedlings until it’s time to get them in the ground. I love this Read More >>
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10 Fun Facts About Avocados It’s no secret that I love avocados. This year it seems like I am eating them at least every other day on toast, in a salad, or mashed up for guacamole. Just about every grocery list I make for HH these days has him buying at least 6 on every Read More >>
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Costco Shopping Trip $95.03 Last week after I dropped my husband off at the airport, I stopped by Costco and loaded up. Well, if you can call spending $95 loading up. 😉 I went up and down all the aisles but giant bags of nuts and dried fruits were really the only things that caught Read More >>
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Online Things I am happy to report that I am officially done dyeing wool for the year!!! I can’t even tell you how good this feels. The idea of squeezing a year’s worth of cutting, dyeing, bundling wool into 3 months was a big task, but I did it. Now all that’s left is to Read More >>
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Husbands are interesting. And while I don’t think I really need to elaborate on that statement… I think I will. 😉 Last night I was downstairs working on our taxes and the HH was upstairs {researching who knows what!?} and all of a sudden he’s telling me to check my email… Someone online is giving Read More >>
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Today is officially the first day of spring. After a long cold winter, I’m not sure you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who wasn’t looking forward to some aspect of spring. As a gardener, I’m almost giddy about it. I spend most of March begging and pleading with the ground to unfreeze so I Read More >>
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Yesterday I took Lucy to the beach to hunt for lobster rope but man oh man, it was slim pickins out there. Serves me right, waiting til the last minute… I hope I have enough scrap rope for the next round of buoys. Lucy didn’t even find a single crunch crab to munch on. The Read More >>
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