Our Easter weekend was low key, just like I needed. Over the weekend, I managed to: Spend time with some quilting friends Paint my fingernails and toenails a nice robin-egg blue Read part of my book-group book Admire my new fabric from Hawthorne Threads Bake and eat ham Upgrade WordPress (Still working on personalizing my new theme) I think that covers it. Of course, I’m going to make up for all my R&R with a [...]

So like most people, the urge to clean and organize doesn’t stop once the Christmas decorations are put away. It’s like I can’t help myself. I just need to clean and organize. Luckily the urge doesn’t last forever. So when it does hit, I have to prioritize my deep cleaning efforts. I started with my sewing room. First up, I hung some paper craft art that I made last summer. I wish I could find [...]

(Note: I just realized that the post was never published. I decided to go ahead and publish it. So forgive me for presenting content out of order. RM) OK. Some how I missed blogging the whole month of June. I thought about it, but some how my blog and I didn’t connected. Tonight, I’d like to  make amends and summarize the last 4-5 weeks of my life. Much of our time was spent in out [...]

Our garden has made it to week nine. Since we don’t know what we’re doing, I’m fairly happy. So far, the radishes are the only real loss. I didn’t thin them out soon enough. In a couple of weeks, I’ll plant a second batch. Hopefully, I’ll do better the second time. Today, we reined back the tomatoes. They out grew their cages. Now they lived in a tomato prison which is formed with stakes and [...]

If you’ve spent any extended time around me, chances are you’ve heard me complain about the 20-year old compost pile in out backyard. It’s the one part of the backyard excavation experience that we couldn’t resolve on our own. We just didn’t have a place to go with the dirt. Sunday at dinner with my family, we were explaining our dilemma. The dirt is nice good dirt. We just didn’t want to dump it at [...]

This weekend turned out to be busy, busy, busy. I think it will be a two-post update. First our veggie garden: Our weekend started with a blank dirt slate. After a bit of muscle flexing by Ross, the fence-post cement was excavated. While it wasn’t easy, it did take less then time than we anticipated. This was the only event that took less time than anticipated. After a trip to Lowes and Western Gardens, our [...]