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This afternoon Lucy the puggle dog and I pulled up our first beets of the season. Aren’t they gorgeous? These are by far the biggest beets I’ve ever grown {it’s called neglect!} 😉 But that’s not why I’m so excited. This week I plan on getting most of my seeds planted for my fall vegetable Read More >>
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Soft scrub works great, but it has tons of harsh chemicals that I’m not super excited about. Â A couple of months ago, I stumbled onto a homemade soft scrub recipe, and although I’ve tweaked it a bit to suit my own tastes, it works AWESOME. Â No, seriously, this stuff is amazing. Â I clean my toilets Read More >>
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Wow! Yesterday my buddy Heather from Massachusetts sent me a couple of pictures of her backyard garden, including this one of her daughter reading a book under their bean trellis. Her daughter was suppose to be picking weeds but was caught munching on beans under the trellis instead. 😉 Now that’s my kind of girl! Read More >>
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Albertsons $13.49 Albertsons has a sweet deal on canned beans this week – only $0.50 a can. Yee-Haw, those will come in handy this winter in pasta salads and chili. Ricotta cheese was $2.99 and sour cream $0.50 and the carrots, well they were for the horse down the street {The Girl likes to feed Read More >>
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I can’t believe our EPIC cross country road trip for our Send in the Gnomes fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is less than 3 weeks away. We are so. freakin. excited. Your support has been A-Mazing! We’re already trying to figure out how to cram all of our gnomes in our luggage {you Read More >>
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Wahoooo! Check out these vintage dresses One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Lisa found! Here is what she had to say: Hi Mavis! I just saw this feature on your blog and decided to “enter.” There was a large item trash pick up just north of my town in the Kansas City area a couple Read More >>
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Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 29 of 52 You know how the saying goes… The cobblers children have no shoes. Well lately I feel like I have so many other things on my plate that my backyard vegetable garden is getting neglected. Sure the raspberries, cabbage, chard and the occasional vegetables are getting picked, Read More >>
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This weekend, The Girl and I decided to go check out the Sequim Lavender Festival and Street Fair. Yep, just acres and acres of lavender. And, let me tell you, it smelled amazing. While we were there, we learned a ton about lavender and what you can do with it. Here’s my favorite:  Use lavender Read More >>
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