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Yesterday Lucy the Puggle Dog and I spent some time working in our square foot garden. As you can see she is very interested in growing food. If there is one thing she loves it’s fresh vegetables {and biting!}. I was only able to get a few lettuce seeds out of the packet before Lucy Read More >>
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A strange thing happened at the Boston airport {besides the part about the HH deciding we had to be there 6 hours before our flight was due to take off}. I made a grocery list. A really, really long grocery list. Idle hands, and sleep deprivation do not go well together. Here are the groceries we purchased when we came home Read More >>
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Dear Diary, It is 4 pm and I am still in my pajamas. Clearly it’s too late to bother with a shower or putting real clothes on, so I might as grab a half dozen of these delicious apple cinnamon cookies I just made and pop in a movie. Yee-Haw! I love lazy Sunday afternoons. Read More >>
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Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 17 of 52 It’s amazing how different a garden can look when you’ve been away for a week. In my opinion this is when it starts to get fun {picture wise}. Now that the weather is starting to warm up we can see more growth and green stuff sprouting up Read More >>
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Wahooooo! I wanted to give everyone an update on our Send in the Gnomes Fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. OH MY GNOME! Together we have raised $1,600 dollars and collected 160 garden gnomes towards our $10,000 / 1,000 garden gnome goal. In case you just stumbled upon this and your’e wondering who the heck is Read More >>
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Is it just me, or do you think coming home from a vacation is lot of work? Besides doing some much needed grocery shopping, 5 loads of laundry and rounding up all our pets from the neighbors yesterday, we also had the fun task of taking all the shelving out of the refrigerator and scrubbing it down. Read More >>
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On Thursday we woke up in Portland, Maine {awesome city!} and drove 3+ hours to Four Seasons Farm. If you have never heard of it, I highly recommend you check out some of the owners’ books. They {Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman} have a farm in Harborside, Maine, and have basically mastered the art of four Read More >>
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On Wednesday we visited the House of Seven Gables {the very one that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write a book by the same name}. It’s located in Salem, Massachusetts, and man-oh-man is it cool. It’s seriously like taking a step back in time. It was built in 1668 by a sea captain and passed down for Read More >>
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