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Cooking

Bacon Jam

With a day off work, I have a day to work around home. It's 7:30 and I sit at my kitchen counter watching the sun…
Lisa
August 29, 2013
Cooking

Spicy pickled okra

Having a choice between regular okra and red okra at the farmers' market Saturday, I elected to go off the beaten path and bought two…
Lisa
August 26, 2013
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Home base

I spent several hours of combined time sitting in my car with the engine running this week, listening to the radio, playing solitaire on my…
Lisa
August 24, 2013
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Field Trip

The seasons feel like they are shifting, if just a small fraction. It was 73F this morning and foggy. While it climbed into the mid…
Lisa
August 11, 2013
CookingGardening

Sunday dinner

There is a steep learning curve to growing your own food when you don't come a gardening or farming family. I wanted to grow some…
Lisa
August 5, 2013
Cooking

Pear conserve

I planted three pear trees back in the winter. All I really want are the sand pears which some people also call Asian pears or…
Lisa
August 3, 2013
Gardening

Mulched

The driveway flower bed with three river birches, daylilies, irises, gerber daisies, pentas and dahlias. The left sided back door yard daylily bed with echinacaea…
Lisa
August 2, 2013
Sewing & Quilting

The new quilt

Evan wanted a new quilt. It was time. His baby quilt needed to be retired (and protected). I came home from the Modern Quilt Guild…
Lisa
August 1, 2013