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Our Volunteers

I get excited by volunteer plants, remnants of last year’s planting that survived the winter or grew up to make seeds that sowed themselves. We have at least one volunteer every year. I read a neat article on Nurture Store last week, about gardening with wild cards. Cathy and her two daughters garden in the [...]

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Grace’s New Glittery Bedroom

All that Glitters Topcoat from Disney & Glidden

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post, but all opinions are my own. As I mentioned earlier this month, we had some redecorating planned for Grace’s bedroom. You know, the one Joe sleeps in. Anyway. Grace wanted to put Peter Pan and Tinkerbell on the ceiling in glow-in-the-dark paint, and she wanted a glittery trail of [...]

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Cleaning My Sink with Clorox Clean Up with Smart Tube Technology

I am a slob. I have always been a slob. When I was a single girl, teaching in the school year and loafing in the summers, my house got a little out of control. Okay, maybe a lot out of control. At any rate, a friend told me about this ingenious thing she signed up [...]

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Spring Cleaning – The Linen Closet

I have a linen closet in my upstairs hallway. The door won’t close. It’s been like that for a long time, maybe a year. Probably longer. It’s not blocked open exactly. The door closes to the frame, but the closet is stuffed too full for the door to latch. Il y a longtemps, my friends. [...]

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Disney Paint Creates A Magic Room

Do you remember when we painted Grace’s bedroom? I wrote about it a lot when we did it, back in 2010. Well, we’re at it again. No, we are not removing the pink. I’m pretty sure that room will still have hot pink walls when our little grandchildren come over to visit. But now, the [...]

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My Tacky Tablecloth

For the last 12 years, I’ve judged people with vinyl tablecloths. I decreed them tacky. Both the tablecloths and the owners. I’m sorry if that’s you. Please forgive me. Tablecloths are cloth. They’re supposed to be made of fabric. Yesterday, I bought 2 vinyl tablecloths, and I sorta ran home to put one on my table. [...]

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Growing Peanuts

Early in the spring, Joe purchased a couple of peanut plants. We knew that peanuts grew underground, like potatoes, but we haven’t had much luck with potatoes. We tried not to get our hopes up. This week, Joe poked around in the dirt near one of the plants. We have peanuts. I have lots of [...]

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How to Plan and Plant a Garden – A Guide for Beginners

Two weeks ago, I explained how to select plants for your new garden. We looked at annuals and perennials, then at light and water needs. Then I got busy and forgot to write part two. Sorry about that. This week, we’ll talk about putting the plants you picked into the ground in your garden. I’m assuming [...]

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How to Start a Garden – A Guide for Beginngers

How to Start a Garden - A Quick Beginner

I’ve received quite a few comments in the last week about how to plan a garden, how to plant a garden, and how to take care of a garden. Some readers have asked about flowers and some above vegetables, but as a whole, they aren’t sure how to get started and need help with the [...]

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A Tour of My Garden

Before the vandalism of my gardens, I had been taking pictures of my garden at least two or three times a week. I haven’t been keeping up as much since it happened; I’ve been dealing with phone calls related to the lawsuit, phone calls related to our broken oven, doctor visits related to Allie’s bronchitis, [...]

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