If you close your eyes and remember this past winter...I know you don't want to go there, but stay with me... perhaps you will remembe...

Cleaning out the garage the other day I decided to wash out all those buckets and containers full of gardening stuff.  Resealed or re-wrap...

Volunteers are like full blown roses.  They arrive with energy and expectations (perhaps inaccurate), but expectations none the less, that...

If you are the kind of optimistic person who carefully plants seeds in the cold dark days of late winter and places them on heating pads ...

When you have nothing in your fried brain it is nice to be able to regurgitate your brilliance that was dumped onto the Internet in prior...

Make some tea or some cool lemonade and come walk with me though my spring garden. I am REALLY lucky this spring that not much has eaten...

If my daughter says she is coming for the weekend I tend to over-plan. I head out to the grocery for kid-friendly snacks, make sure linens a...

When I was a child I remember how rare candy was at my house.  It was rare because of cost, not so much the enforcement toward healthy eat...

For some weird reason we decided to use the rest of the tax refund (i.e. that free loan that you give to Uncle Sam, AND in our case, the...

Discovery and serendipitous cleaning are some of the hallmarks of the time spent in wandering one's house post-visit of toddlers.  On...

The local theatre brochure arrives by post. I peruse and mark those entertainments that look promising. Unfolding the town paper, I scan...

(The title above is in homage to the season finale of the TV show, Damages which I am way too addicted to watching.) Friko commented on ...

I spend my time in spring with my face or my camera lens pressed against some ornamental flower trying to capture that moment in time where ...

I do not think I have ever met anyone who did not like the town of Williamsburg, Virginia after visiting there.  It is Disney World for ...

My grandchildren are very privileged and we will certainly reap the problems of that in years to come, but their joy is an immediate rew...

I have nothing serious or funny to post and am exhausted from gardening...so enjoy...needless to say I got a million of em! ...

This photo above was taken during the war in the South Pacific.  The man in the middle was my husband's half brother.  I do not know if ...

I think I have figured out the basic difference in conservative and liberal mindsets at the far reaches of civilization.  Most of us are san...

Marriage is a tough path to follow, and anyone who tells you otherwise does not have standards.  Marriage is not for the faint of heart or t...

Our country neighborhood recently got a new restaurant...an Olive Garden.  Now if you live in the city you are thinking...yeah, big deal?  B...