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I reuse containers to store more food in. Pictured are almonds, peanuts, and popcorn.

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We canned some of the turkey soup we made after Christmas. It’s so good! (yah, I am no longer vegetarian)

Brian putting in the new sink. Later he will finish the cabinets, so for now the sink skirt I made will go back on.

Mid-December and the indoor tomatoes are ripening. last of the garden stuff!

Remember my old ugly bath mat I was recovering in denim? here is the finished product. I decided to use it in the downstairs bathroom

I just love denim! Last month we tore out the old broken dishwasher and cabinets, but have been so busy with work still not done with fixing the sink back up. It looks terrible! very ugly. So I decided to make a nice sink skirt to pretty things back up in the kitchen. It took [...]

I decided recently to start eating meat again. Why? because I started craving it, something that has never happened in the past 24 years I was a vegetarian…or in my entire life for that matter. It started due to my health issues, I had a miscarriage and then the flu back-to-back. It was a lot [...]

I have this old dingy bath mat that I can’t brighten…tried washing several times. I thought about dying it but decided to just cover it with denim. I have lots of scraps I can use. This way I don’t have to throw it out and buy a new bathroom mat. It’s still functional, just ugly, [...]

Brian repaired the garage roof. It was really bad. He had to replace lots of old shingles. My in-laws came over and helped out quite a bit, as did Scott & Todd.

I had these in the house for a while before they bore fruit. I wonder how long it will take for them to ripen.

I cut some tomato branches and brought them indoors for decoration. I just love green growing things in my kitchen. I put them in some old wine glasses filled with water. Lovely

Drying out this corn cob and saving the seeds for next year. How do I dry it out? Just peel the husks and leave the cob out to open air indoors. Once dry, you can just pick the dried seeds off.

Although the sunflowers in the garden grew to size, the ones on the side of the house did not. I am not sure why…the ground there is very shallow. I’ll dig in some compost this year and let it rest next year.

Some of the tomato plants I’m growing indoors. The trick is to make sure they get lots of sunlight.

One of the nice little creeks winding through Avon lake, Ohio. although the flash against the green is too hard, I do like how it captured the light on the water.

I started some new sourdough starter to make bread, rolls, pretzels, etc. My last starter I used up without adding to it, which is a shame because I had that starter for years. Sourdough starter is natural yeast. Why do I want to make and use it instead of just buying yeast? Well, commercial yeast [...]

Although I prefer a natural unsculpted look I really like the landscaping at the Bay Village, Oh library. so pretty!

Poster I saw at the Bay Village, OH library. Although Cuyahoga county makes a special effort for computer recycling in the month of August, you can recycle your old computers at any time. Here’s how:
1. Take off your personal info that is stored on the computer. This includes financial information, photos, address book/contact information, and [...]

A few pics from my balcony garden! above is Bell Pepper

Cherry Tomatoes

Okra

More Bell Pepper

The tomatoes are ripening, finally. It’s been a mild summer…we only had a few days of real hot weather. I need to get at those weeds, WOW

S-bop helping me get the garden under control back in August. This part of the garden was so overrun with weeds I said forget it! and had S-bop mow it down. What was here was green beans, turnips, and yellow squash. We picked the remaining beans and squash and pulled the turnips, then mowed everything [...]

I grew some tomatoes indoors this year like I usually do. Here is one of the pots in the kitchen. Please ignore the dirty floor and stove! I’ve been slacking on housecleaning LOL. Growing tomatoes indoors requires lots of sunlight!

The apple tree put out a lot of fruit this year. We get some daily!

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Some pics of the garden from early August. I really let the garden go this summer, it just ran wild. Still, I was able to harvest some things.

I grow mint in the garden, and have so much of it. If you know anything at all about mint, you know it grows like a weed. People often ask me, what do you do with all that mint? One thing I do is use it for tea. My older son and I have several [...]

There was a study done on this village in greenland starting in 2004:
In certain villages in northern Greenland something is completely out of whack—only girls are being born. These reports from villages near the U.S. Air Force base in Thule are now being explored by scientists. But studies conducted a few years ago now coming [...]

How my kitchen window looks this month. I love green growing things in my house. Some of them are bean plants I uprooted accidentally while weeding the garden, some are wild flowers I picked as buds that will blossom, and some are various plants growing around the house.