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Someone please stop us from buying more trees. We are totally out of space! Vince wanted pear trees . . fine, I got the peach and plums I wanted but I would love a cherry tree or two but that’s not happening. Vince has been looking for a pear tree as the stores are getting...

When we got Oscar about two years ago, we had to puppy proof everything. We used a puppy gate to keep him off the stairs and we had a “fence” that we used to block off one end of a hallway to keep Oscar confined to the living room. It’s hard to describe but some...

Please don’t judge! I am NOT one of those people who buys stuff, decides I don’t like it soon after purchasing and replaces it with something new and expensive. My car is 17 years old. The furniture in two bedrooms in this house, as well as the dining room, is furniture the sellers of the...

This morning we awoke to a winder winderland. The weather had been so “it’s going to snow a lot/it isn’t going to snow much at all Sunday”. We have a great weatherman and he kept apologizing for the back and forth on the forecast. At first, he said we were going to get 3 –...

A couple of years ago we planted two Witch Hazel plants in the back yard. I wanted them for medicinal reasons and they are good native plants. They’ve done great but I never knew they bloomed. Someone mentioned in one of the native plant groups that their witch hazel was blooming so I went out...

It’s cold. I cannot imagine how cold it must have been at the Chiefs’ game last night. When I went to take Oscar out right before bed, this is what our weather station showed: -0.4 A nice, toasty 72.9 in the house, which is way warmer than we normally keep the house. Accuweather said it...

We have some below zero lows predicted for the next couple of weeks . . not every night but a few nights. The temps at our house are usually about 5 degrees cooler on cold nights so we could easily have lows near -10. It isn’t worth the cost of trying to keeping the greenhouse...

Yesterday I had several emails about the shelf, and a comment today so here’s the info on the shelf we ordered. We’ve used these shelves for many years. They’ve been moved and abused and are very sturdy. Some seem to be more heavy duty than others so be sure and check the weight capacity of...

I think I told you that the first shelf unit we ordered for the breakfast room was really wimpy and arrived with a dented shelf so we sent it back and ordered one of the Seville stainless shelf unit. These are the ones we use everywhere – sewing room, garage, sun room, Vince’s craft/exercise/storage room....

Today or tomorrow I’ll have a post about my plans for not spending next year but yesterday was not “next year” and there are several things I’ve been thinking about so I figured just order them and get it over with. Aida: First, I bought some aida. Denise does most (maybe all) of her stitching...

I need to stop saying “In Texas . . ” because Texas is history but . . in Texas, we had a bigger greenhouse. It was . . I’m not saying the one here isn’t “nice” . . it is and I’m very happy to have it but the one in Texas was more substantial...

One of the reasons I wanted to share these pictures is to encourage anyone who doesn’t have space for an outdoor garden but wants to grow a few things. This year I had five 4 x 8 raised beds and four 4 x 4 raised beds. Vince has built two more raised beds so now...

Almost two weeks ago, I saw this on the porch. I told Vince . . I think we have a rat on the porch and asked him to set a trap. He put one of those traps that the rat has to go into so we wouldn’t catch something besides a rat. Nothing. Didn’t catch...

Lately when I’ve taken Oscar out to the play yard, he will chase and fetch the ball for about 10 minutes but then he starts eating something on the ground and he totally loses interest in the ball. When he starts eating whatever it is, I put the leash on him and we go back...

I will be the first to admit that I have too much stuff – especially craft and kitchen stuff. I don’t have a lot of clothes or shoes. Once upon a time I did but now I don’t. Jeremy and Angie had furniture in the sun room. There was a little table with two chairs,...

Vince loves sweet potatoes but I believe he’s getting a bit frustrated with them popping up everywhere. Yesterday I pulled all the sweet potatoes out of the second big bin and I dumped one grow bag. The dark ones were growing in a 5 gallon grow bag and the light ones were growing in the...

I love green tomato pickles. I think I love all food except red sauce. This is the first year in many years that I’ve had enough green tomatoes to do anything with. I made the green tomato curry and canned about 18 pints and a couple of half pints. It was so good that I...

We’ve given up on trying to harvest the big okra pods. They’re so far up that Vince can barely reach them with his tallest ladder. No need breaking his need over a pod of okra. You can see how tall that one stalk is there. It’s crazy. Then there’s the funny one with the weird...

The last few days I’ve been working on getting the garden area cleaned up. There were some things that were hard for me to do so Vince helped out a bit. The bed on the left with all the green flopping stalks is asparagus. Once it all turns brown, I’ll cut it back. Vince is...

This year’s garden is still surprising me. Remember that last year I hardly got any tomatoes. I did exactly the same thing this year . . same things I pretty much always do and this year, there’s been an abundance of tomatoes. We’ve had night after night after night where our temps didn’t get out...