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If you live in Maine, or are thinking about visiting this summer and will be near the town of Brunswick {home to Bowdoin College and L.L. Bean} you’ll want to be sure and stop by The Portland Pie Company for lunch. Actually, the Portland Pie Company has 9 locations throughout southern Maine so you’re bound Read More >>
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Bad Haircuts. At what point do you think husbands tire of attempting to cut their own hair and then walking into the kitchen and asking their wife to fix it? Does anyone know? Do they have to hit a particular age? Is there a certain number of bad haircuts they have to give themselves before Read More >>
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It seems like every year, as soon as gardening season begins, I start to get a lot of questions about compost. What is compost and why is it so important? So since I’m itching to get going in the garden, I thought now would be the perfect time share the 411 on all things compost. Read More >>
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While I didn’t set out to be, I was actually sort of a prolific hooker in April. It was a busy month for me, finishing up all my wool dyeing projects, getting sick and then tidying up the garden. Plus, I worked on a side project too, but I’ll share more about that next week. Read More >>
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This past week I pretty much lived off of cough drops and ice cream as I’m still getting over a nasty case of strep throat. I’d say I’m operating at about 80% right now and still taking a mini nap here and there. Hopefully by the end of this week I’ll be back to normal. Luckily Read More >>
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Eat More Fruits and Vegetables I ordered a case of my all time favorite canned vegetable, Heinz beans last week thanks to an Amazon promotional credit the HH had from ordering a new cell phone a while back. Heinz beans… Have you ever tried them? If I could only eat 5 things for the rest Read More >>
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Having recently planted a long row of carrots in our kitchen garden, today I thought I’d share some of my tried and true tips on how to grow carrots for those of you who haven’t grown them before. In my opinion, carrots are hands down one of the easiest vegetables to grow {zucchini and peas Read More >>
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bits and bobs: A random assortment of things; small remaining pieces and things So, all I need is butter? Click HERE if you want to go down a rabbit hole. 🙂 I thought it was pretty funny. How often do you open a catalog and have to do a double take because the person in Read More >>
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