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Mend a Towel

Mend a Towel

Last weekend, my son was in town for something to do with Civil Air Patrol. I asked him to bring his laundry so I could clean it. He normally does this himself, but I do not mind giving him a break and I usually find something that needs mending. This time it was a towel. […]

Garden Planning and Planting

Garden Planning and Planting

Over the past few days, I have managed to get my backyard vegetable garden tilled and planted. My garden plant-able area measures 21 feet by 50 feet this year. The garden is a few feet behind my house.
I tilled it April 30th and this is how it looked the next morning.

This year I am planting:

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Dandelion

Dandelion

Today I had flowers on my mind. If my digital camera worked with batteries, this post would have looked different. I would have posted a few images of the wild flowers, aka, weeds that are blooming in my yard. I collected a few flowers to press.
I did not press any dandelions. Dandelions are usually the […]

WP 2.5 and Gravatar

WP 2.5 and Gravatar

Wordpress.org released WordPress 2.5 a couple of days ago. The changes in this new version are numerous, but I want to talk about gravatars. WordPress 2.5 is now gravatar ready as long as your theme is gravatar enabled. I added gravatars to this blog theme and now I have a lot of this in the […]

Taking Back the Hutch

Taking Back the Hutch

We are in the final few months of homeschooling. Soon my daughter will graduate and that will be that. It happens eventually.
Graduation happens. I just wanted to throw that in because homeschoolers who still have a few years to go are sometimes visibly relieved to hear that. I’ve been told that I am a survivor, […]