They say that you can’t blame your parents for your choices. You’re a grown up. You need to take responsibility for your decisions, your actions, your words. It’s fruitless to blame your parents. After all, you are making those choices. Your parents aren’t standing there telling you what to do Hopefully. However, if you look…
July 4th. Independence Day. America's birthday. What were you up to that day? A parade. A BBQ. Fireworks. Work. Did you eat too much, stay up too late, let your kids have too much sugar and almost burn themselves or their siblings with sparklers? My husband's place of employment was in the parade this year,…
I know you've all been wondering how my garden is doing--especially since I've not posted any pictures of it so far. The very first tomato of the season! A ready-to-eat salad Soon to be producing way more zucchini than we can eat. Marionberries My new favorite color/type of marigold--the strawberry blonde Looking at all of…
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the US and we're gearing up for a feast. We've got checklists for the cleaning and the cooking. I've got table decoration ideas saved on Pinterest. There will be friends and family here. It's going to be quite the day. And then it's time for Christmas music!! But I don't…
We have quite the extensive garden here on the farm. In addition to space for the vegetables, we have a large strawberry patch, a large blueberry patch, and so many fruit trees. It's wonderful. But this time of year it's a lot of work. The soil needs to be prepped for planting. Seeds are germinated…
Being the end of summer and beginning of fall, the blackberries are ripe and we decided that we were going to pick some this year. So my husband and I got to work. I geared up with my boots and jeans and long-sleeved shirt. My husband had the clippers for those vines that just won't…