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Do you remember those 40+ lbs of strawberries I brought home for free the other day? Well, because the “do something with it now or they will rot” clock was ticking I decided to make a few batches of jam. Normally I wouldn’t be making strawberry jam until the end of June when the berries Read More >>
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Today while everyone was away I whipped up a batch of potato soup for dinner. And what goes best with potato soup? Popovers of course! Please tell me you’ve had popovers before. Please? They are so delicious. You need to a make a batch for dinner this week. Okay, maybe you need to bake two Read More >>
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A new house has been built in our neighborhood and yesterday the landscapers showed up with 3 truckloads of flowers, trees and shrubs. Hot diggety, I wonder if they will be throwing away all those black pots? I went to investigate. I asked the man in charge if he was planning on throwing away the Read More >>
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About a month ago, the Handsome Husband came home with a bunch of free, recycled pallets for me. My original plan was to build a large potato tower with the recycled pallets. However once I started to put the pallets together, I quickly noticed the large structure would be an eye sore. So after staring Read More >>
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Much to my surprise, I ended up with a large amount of free mushrooms this weekend. Thinking ahead to winter, I decided to go ahead and dehydrate them to use in soups later on. If you have never dehydrated mushrooms before, let me tell you. It was a piece of cake. Seriously, a trained monkey Read More >>
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Last week I shared a link to a woman in France who has a flicker account titled, These Days in French Life. It’s basically a photographic journey of this woman’s life in France. What makes her pictures so extraordinary, is that this woman feeds her family on a diet of “scraps.” Food that has been Read More >>
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This week started with The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I in Paris, France. Followed by an afternoon in San Francisco, California and it was topped off by a gloriously sunny weekend here in Western Washington. I could not have planned a more perfect week if I had tried. One of my favorite Read More >>
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If you’ve been wondering how to find free containers for your garden, this post is for you! Yesterday, I went to the Home Depot to pick up a gallon of stain for the garden boxes. As I was waiting for my order to be processed, I headed over to the flower section to see if Read More >>
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