Last weekend foxglovehp and I went to the Lucketts Spring Antique Fair.  I will post some impression from that lovely day in a separate post, but for now ( let me show you what we found )

Every morning, the pooch and I take a short walk through the neighborhood.  Lately I have become aware that while a higher than normal number of houses appears to be for sale along the routes I normally travel, not everyone has too much house.  Every morning Nellie and I pass a mailbox next to which sits a newspaper box for the local paper.  In the ( Read more... )

Some weeks it seems I am not as smart as others.  Too bad I don't know what causes that, lol

As you all may have noticed, I like to garden.  Since I also like to read, it should come as no surprise that I enjoy gardening magazines.  While the big BH&G specialty and seasonal publications are a lot of fun, they tend to get a little bit too much of the same after a while.  Therefore, a few weeks ago, when we stopped by Barnes and Noble, I ( Read more... )

I read something this morning that struck a chord with me.  The author suggested that people either primarily want to be right, or want to be happy.  She suggested that if the person wants/needs to be right, he or she will only be satisfied when they get exactly what they want, how they want it.  People who want to primarily be happy however, are ( Read more... )

My DH foxglovehp took some pictures after we planted the first round of vegetables last weekend, so I wanted to show them off to establish a baseline.  Things have been doing okay until this morning, but the sudden heatwave has me a little concerned.  My goal is to hook up the sprinkler first thing in the morning (when I go out to feed the yard cats) and let ( Read more... )

I initially wrote this in response to a comment pisceth  made to a post I made yesterday, but it occurred to me that it was really more of a post, so I pulled the entire thing out of the comment section and plunked it in here:

I know about living in ones head.  It is definitively a place where I know I do not have to explain everything I say to make sure ( Read more... )

I know I have been here before.  I guess I could go back and check old posts, but it's not that important, really.  I love the idea of lj or blogger, but I struggle with the execution.  I follow blogs (google reader is the key) and I really enjoy blogs in which average people tell me about their normal and average lives.  I enjoy people, at least ( Read more... )

The cunning plan is to slowly convert the vegetable garden (about 35'x50', fenced in and in almost entirely full sun all the time) to raised beds.  There are two gates to the vegetable garden, one of them is a is a "normal" fence gate (came with the house and its fenced in back yard), the other one is a piece of fencing between two gate posts (we ( Read more... )

I used to shop at Walmart fairly regularly for years.  Their prices were good and the wide selection of products cut down on the time and effort it took to get a lot of the basic non-grocery store items.  About 3 years ago, our local store went through a remodel, to give the store a more "upscale" look (lower shelves, faux wood floor in the ( Read more... )