Winners and Adventures With Whole Wheat (Part 1)

THANKS, THANKS, THANKS, everyone for your fabulous support of my crazy little blog. I giggled, I laughed, I giggled some more. So much fun. So don’t all of  you fade back into commentless reading. I got up at 6 AM this morning and rushed around getting ready to...

A Time and A Season

Fall colors now dot the mountain view from my kitchen window. Each morning I wake to the crisp, clean smell of fall. The changing seasons signal a time for accounting in my own life, a time to reflect and set new goals. I’m grateful it comes four times a year...

Flower Personalities

We lost our tomatoes and peppers to freezing temperatures last Monday night and snow is in our forecast for Wednesday. I’ll soon be saying goodbye to all my flowers until spring. Columbine are among my favorite flowers. The blossoms appear soft and delicate, yet...

Monday Musings: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

With all the talk about recycling, I started feeling like I wasn’t doing my part. I decided I could do more even if the facilities weren’t convenient or close. I could rinse out cans and store them in my basement to take north to a recycling center. The...

Searching For the Lip on the Riser

Last summer my husband took a youth group to Lake Powell. That left the children and me to move the sprinkler pipe. Up until that time, I had helped move the pipe but had never been responsible for shutting off a riser (the white part of the pipe in the picture) and...