It seems my life is full of restarts...her I am restarting this blog....again. I do have Los to say these days...so hold on to you senses. :-)
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Guess Who's Back?
So, once again I began a blog only to leave it by the wayside as a chaotic and busy life took over.
That is about to change!
Starting tomorrow I will return to blogging "full time." Between photography and my obsession with botany and natural living, I have much to say! I thought about making a brand new blog, but I am rather tired of starting over. I may re-work this space, and will certainly be renaming it to better suit its new purpose, which is to share information (rather than gossip ^_*). I really want to share all I am learning about sustainable living, crafting, and foraging. I am trying to return to the ways of our grand-parents and great grandparents, and it is an interesting journey! Perhaps I'll do some reviews as well. Real reviews, because I am quite sick of reading reviews by people who sing the praises of whoever was smart enough to send the reviewer something free. Blog reviews rarely review, they market. I find it highly annoying, so be assured any product/book/food reviews done by me will be nothing less than brutally honest. I will not sell myself by gushing about a product/company in return for a bit of free product.
Tomorrow begins our amazing adventure.
But first...
sleep. ;)
*ah
That is about to change!
Starting tomorrow I will return to blogging "full time." Between photography and my obsession with botany and natural living, I have much to say! I thought about making a brand new blog, but I am rather tired of starting over. I may re-work this space, and will certainly be renaming it to better suit its new purpose, which is to share information (rather than gossip ^_*). I really want to share all I am learning about sustainable living, crafting, and foraging. I am trying to return to the ways of our grand-parents and great grandparents, and it is an interesting journey! Perhaps I'll do some reviews as well. Real reviews, because I am quite sick of reading reviews by people who sing the praises of whoever was smart enough to send the reviewer something free. Blog reviews rarely review, they market. I find it highly annoying, so be assured any product/book/food reviews done by me will be nothing less than brutally honest. I will not sell myself by gushing about a product/company in return for a bit of free product.
Tomorrow begins our amazing adventure.
But first...
sleep. ;)
*ah
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Alive, but Itchy
No, I haven't forgotten my promise to blog, in fact I have LOTS to blog about. I just haven't had too much time. We took a vacation to Louisiana the week of Easter, in order to visit my brother, sister in law, and four nieces. It was a GREAT trip but now I am playing catch up around the house, as if I was ever caught up to begin with, lol.
To top it all off, I have the worst case of poison ivy I have ever had! My face is absolutely COVERED, including the area around my eyes, my eye lids, and even the rims of my eyes. ITCHY doesn't begin to describe how it feels!
I can give credit for my hideous rash to my new found passion for foraging. Yep, foraging, as in eating wild plants for food. My husband bought a couple of books on identifying edible wild plants because he was interested in the subject, but it was I who picked up the books and became fascinated!
I have tried a couple of wild foods so far. I dug some wild carrots, which grow ALL OVER THE PLACE. Wild carrots are actually the very common flower/weed, Queen Anne's Lace, which we've all seen covering the sides of the roads during the summer time.
I have also tried wood violets and wood sorrel. The violets were rather bland, though not nasty, but the sorrel amazed me. Wood sorrel looks a bit like clover and makes lovely little flowers. You can eat the clover-like greens and they are so YUM, tasting slightly sour in a good way.
Of course, we have eaten dandelions for years. My oldest son loves to shock people by picking the yellow flowers and gobbling them down. Now I know I can also eat ox-eyed daisy greens! Who would have thought you could eat daisies??? We also have an abundance of wild strawberries growing AND wild raspberries.
Can you tell I am excited about foraging? LOL I never imagined there were so many edible plants growing right under our noses, most of them labeled as weeds!
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To top it all off, I have the worst case of poison ivy I have ever had! My face is absolutely COVERED, including the area around my eyes, my eye lids, and even the rims of my eyes. ITCHY doesn't begin to describe how it feels!
I can give credit for my hideous rash to my new found passion for foraging. Yep, foraging, as in eating wild plants for food. My husband bought a couple of books on identifying edible wild plants because he was interested in the subject, but it was I who picked up the books and became fascinated!
I have tried a couple of wild foods so far. I dug some wild carrots, which grow ALL OVER THE PLACE. Wild carrots are actually the very common flower/weed, Queen Anne's Lace, which we've all seen covering the sides of the roads during the summer time.
I have also tried wood violets and wood sorrel. The violets were rather bland, though not nasty, but the sorrel amazed me. Wood sorrel looks a bit like clover and makes lovely little flowers. You can eat the clover-like greens and they are so YUM, tasting slightly sour in a good way.
Of course, we have eaten dandelions for years. My oldest son loves to shock people by picking the yellow flowers and gobbling them down. Now I know I can also eat ox-eyed daisy greens! Who would have thought you could eat daisies??? We also have an abundance of wild strawberries growing AND wild raspberries.
Can you tell I am excited about foraging? LOL I never imagined there were so many edible plants growing right under our noses, most of them labeled as weeds!
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The only progress made so far on my spring cleaning project is that I now have more clean laundry than dirty. Not put away laundry, or even folded laundry, but clean laundry at least.
Sigh. . .
I remember this story I loved as a child, The Elves and the Shoemaker, a Grimm's Fairy Tale. In the story, the poor shoemaker is barely making a living, scraping by, and finds himself with enough leather for only one more pair of shoes. Before bed, he carefully cuts and lays out his leather, preparing to make the shoes the next day. When he returns the next morning, instead of cut outs for a pair of shoes, there is a completed pair of shoes! He sells the shoes the next day to a gentleman who pays double the normal price because of the fine quality. Then, before bed he leaves out cut outs for two pairs of shoes, and the next morning, you guessed it, two pairs of completed shoes greeted the old shoemaker!! The shoemaker and his wife end up living happily ever after, wealthy from the elves work, of course.
How I wish I had my own set of elves. If I could start a task at night, go to bed, then wake up with the task finished, or wake up with double or triple the task complete! I'm putting in my order right now. One set of house-cleaning elves, STAT!
Sigh. . .
I remember this story I loved as a child, The Elves and the Shoemaker, a Grimm's Fairy Tale. In the story, the poor shoemaker is barely making a living, scraping by, and finds himself with enough leather for only one more pair of shoes. Before bed, he carefully cuts and lays out his leather, preparing to make the shoes the next day. When he returns the next morning, instead of cut outs for a pair of shoes, there is a completed pair of shoes! He sells the shoes the next day to a gentleman who pays double the normal price because of the fine quality. Then, before bed he leaves out cut outs for two pairs of shoes, and the next morning, you guessed it, two pairs of completed shoes greeted the old shoemaker!! The shoemaker and his wife end up living happily ever after, wealthy from the elves work, of course.
How I wish I had my own set of elves. If I could start a task at night, go to bed, then wake up with the task finished, or wake up with double or triple the task complete! I'm putting in my order right now. One set of house-cleaning elves, STAT!
Friday, March 26, 2010
The Never Ending Home Improvement Project
I've already broken my blog a day commitment. Yes, I admit it, I am a procrastinator! In my defense, I had a week-long head ache, so looking at the screen for prolonged periods of time hurt.
Being down for the week came at an inopportune time for me. You see, I am suffering from a bad case of Spring Fever and the weather was nice enough to get some tasks accomplished.
You see, while I am not a neat freak, over the years I have at least become semi-adept at organizing a household. However, about this time last year I became pretty ill due to pregnancy and the house just kinda fell apart around me. As I said, I am not a neat freak, but the clutter has become even more than I can stand!
On top of the pregnancy and new baby neglect, we have the construction mess. We are in the process of remodeling the basement to provide my oldest a bedroom of her own. The project was already taking longer than we had anticipated when last week's rain and snow melt showed us that all the money we had spent sealing the cinder block walls had been for naught, we flooded AGAIN! This was the main issue we had been trying to fix! Granted, the flooding was not to the extent it was before we applied a million coats of sealant, but still, there was WATER seeping in my HOUSE! Sigh.
We did find some place where there appeared to be cracks in the sealant, so those are now painted also. My husband also did quite a bit of digging and finished off some drainage piping under the house. We are now waiting to see if the dam holds, so to speak, before we can continue with the bedroom project. We're ready to hang sheet rock as soon as we know we'll be dry for a while.
I just realized I need to get down there and snap some work in progress pictures. I had some "before" shots, but I think I accidentally deleted them, oops!
I suppose that's enough on the never ending home improvement project for now, lol.
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Being down for the week came at an inopportune time for me. You see, I am suffering from a bad case of Spring Fever and the weather was nice enough to get some tasks accomplished.
You see, while I am not a neat freak, over the years I have at least become semi-adept at organizing a household. However, about this time last year I became pretty ill due to pregnancy and the house just kinda fell apart around me. As I said, I am not a neat freak, but the clutter has become even more than I can stand!
On top of the pregnancy and new baby neglect, we have the construction mess. We are in the process of remodeling the basement to provide my oldest a bedroom of her own. The project was already taking longer than we had anticipated when last week's rain and snow melt showed us that all the money we had spent sealing the cinder block walls had been for naught, we flooded AGAIN! This was the main issue we had been trying to fix! Granted, the flooding was not to the extent it was before we applied a million coats of sealant, but still, there was WATER seeping in my HOUSE! Sigh.
We did find some place where there appeared to be cracks in the sealant, so those are now painted also. My husband also did quite a bit of digging and finished off some drainage piping under the house. We are now waiting to see if the dam holds, so to speak, before we can continue with the bedroom project. We're ready to hang sheet rock as soon as we know we'll be dry for a while.
I just realized I need to get down there and snap some work in progress pictures. I had some "before" shots, but I think I accidentally deleted them, oops!
I suppose that's enough on the never ending home improvement project for now, lol.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Second Day of Spring
Yesterday was the first day of spring. There are little buds popping out all over everything. The daffodils and forsythia are in bloom. My garden is tilled and two new raised beds await planting. There is several inches of snow on the ground. . .
Yep, you read that right, SNOW.
UGH!!!
It's been a long, cold winter and I am more than ready for some sunshine. I have tons of seeds just waiting to go into the ground, and we have lots of work left to do on Pandora's bedroom in the basement. IF ONLY THE WEATHER WOULD COOPERATE!!!
In happier news, Jack is doing so wonderful! I plan on eventually using him as a therapy dog. He is just so smart, and so sweet! He catches on to what I want him do do very quickly, which is wonderful! I am so happy to have this little pup in my life!
Yep, you read that right, SNOW.
UGH!!!
It's been a long, cold winter and I am more than ready for some sunshine. I have tons of seeds just waiting to go into the ground, and we have lots of work left to do on Pandora's bedroom in the basement. IF ONLY THE WEATHER WOULD COOPERATE!!!
In happier news, Jack is doing so wonderful! I plan on eventually using him as a therapy dog. He is just so smart, and so sweet! He catches on to what I want him do do very quickly, which is wonderful! I am so happy to have this little pup in my life!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Are Your Eyes Bleeding?
Just wondering if the colour scheme I have chosen for the blog is too dark and perhaps painful to view for some?
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