One Hundred Dollars a Month

Join Mavis Butterfield for vegetable gardening and canning tips, easy recipes, and saving money strategies (Rug hooking, too!). Simple living at its best!

Tacoma Urban Chicken Coop Tour 2011

By Mavis Butterfield on - 3 Comments

In the paper the other day there was a picture that caught my eye.  It was a story about an upcoming chicken coop tour in Tacoma.  2 things immediately caught my eye.  Chickens & FREE Admission.   🙂 In order to get the map for the tour we first had to drive to the Garden Sphere Read More >>

SHARE:
OTHER

Behind The Garden Gate…

By Mavis Butterfield on - 9 Comments

Things are heating up here in the Seattle area…  The temperature actually rose to 80 degrees on Tuesday…  Shocking I know… Despite the heat… I was finally able to transplant the last of my summer seedlings into the garden. I finally wised up and started cucumbers in pots rather than let the seeds rot in Read More >>

SHARE:
OTHER

FREE Berries… I can’t wait!

By Mavis Butterfield on - Leave a Comment

I finally used up the last of my 10 bazillion pounds of blueberries from last years awesome blueberry deal at Fred Meyer. I some how managed to keep 5… 6 or maybe it was 7 gallon bags hidden in the freezer all winter long… And let me tell you… keeping fruit hidden from The Girl Read More >>

SHARE:
OTHER

Random photos of the week, 6/8

By Mavis Butterfield on - 1 Comment

Do all teenage boys pack this much food in their lunch? Oh Dear… Did you know Winco sells cat toys? I made everyone eat free tacos for lunch and dinner for 2 days straight… and we STILL had leftovers… I finally called it quits and tossed out the extra cupcakes and rice to the chickens… Read More >>

SHARE:
OTHER
Mavis Butterfield
This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: No feed found.

Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to create a feed.