Join Mavis Butterfield for vegetable gardening and canning tips, easy recipes, and saving money strategies (Rug hooking, too!). Simple living at its best!
You know how I like to challenge myself, right? Well this year I have been trying crazy hard to spend only $100 a month on groceries but as you know, I’ve been running a little over each month by about $5-$10. At this rate, I’ll be over my budget by the end of the year Read More >>
The last few afternoons here in Mid-Coast Maine have been absolutely beautiful! We’ve been spending about 6 hours each day in the {soon to be} front yard vegetable garden digging out old plants and working on the fence. Lucy has been busy outside too, aerating the garden and working on her tan mostly. You wouldn’t Read More >>
Yesterday Mrs. HB stopped by to bring me homemade soup and make sure I was on the mend after my cootie filled airplane ride. She’s such a good {old} neighbor and totally deserves a blue ribbon or something for friend of the year. 3 bean soup, chicken soup {plus noodles!} 2 Cokes because she says Read More >>
Highlight of the week? A free turkey! Wahoo. The company The Girl works for gave all their employees {and there are a lot of them} a free turkey for Thanksgiving. How cool is that? You know what’s even better? The Girl has been cooking our Thanksgiving bird since she was like 9 years old. Yep. Read More >>
I had totally planned on doing a no spend week last week and actually made it all the way until Friday but then my Mom asked me to pick something up for her at Costco. In a very uncharacteristic move, I popped into the store around 3 pm. And it was a MAD HOUSE. I Read More >>
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