Lady Bird

Hi there pretty little lady, regal Mrs. Hummingbird.  I’m glad you’ve come to stay the summer with us. Happy Monday and Happy June 1st y’all!

Rose Bug

A rose bug.  Not to be confused with a rose bud of which I have few.  Rose bugs however I have in abundance.  Go figure. Oh well, they are pretty no matter what!

Warning! Creepy Spider Pictures!

So while I was cleaning out the flowers beds (I use the term ‘flower beds’ very loosely by the way) I ran across some completely cool creepy crawlies.  And they told me they wanted to be photographed while having their cozy homes disrupted and the universe as they know it, destroyed.  Who am I to…

Wishful Thinking

I have a vision for my flower beds. In my mind they look like this…….. Organized chaos of color bordered by weed-free mulch, nestled around my home like a quilt of yellow, purple, orange, red, pink and green.  When in reality (since I work full-time, home-school, blog, sell books, have chickens, go to church and…

Good Advice on Monday

My little sister has a good sense of humor.  She bought me this a few years back for my birthday.  It was good advice then and it is good advice now.  Because you never know about those fairies lurking in the flower garden. Besides it makes me laugh.  🙂

Leftover Pizza

Now I’m not talking about leftover-from-the-previous-meal pizza, no indeed!  I’m talking about I’ve been canning and preserving like crazy and had a small mountain of leftover peppers, peaches and assorted other vegetables staring menacingly at me from the countertop.  And we needed some supper.  So instead of just staring back at them I took action! …

Rachel’s Untitled Eggplant Recipe

So Addie wanted to pick out her own vegetable to grow this spring. Therefore we planted 6 eggplant plants.  They were purple and this was the reason for choosing them I am sure.  Anyway.  4 of them died, 1 is stunted and producing nothing, the last one is LOADED.  The poor plant is drooping with…

Peter Piper

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers! YES! I can say it really fast, can you?  I can also make pickled peppers.  This comes in handy since I don’t personally know Peter Piper.  These are fast, easy and delicious.  And they last for YEARS.  I opened my last jar from 2012 just last week…

Things I did not grow…..

I have grown lots of things in my life.  Several hundred pounds of corn and squash.  Close to 1,000 chickens. Maybe more.  And a little human.  This took the longest.  I even managed to grow and keep a houseplant alive for almost 2 years.  A feat in and of itself for me. Some years are better than…