tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70319782430904188412024-09-13T03:04:34.668-05:00Wife, knitter, baker, gardener, kayaker, procrastinator. I blog mostly from our iPad so the pictures aren't fantastic and my spelling stinks, but that's sort of like my life. It's not perfect but I hope it's honest.Dogearedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13061747465061989757noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7031978243090418841.post-14906462420087180812012-06-20T19:20:00.002-05:002012-06-20T19:21:27.189-05:00

Birthday Chacos and my favorite McCoy Pottery flower pot.

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  We have had our first harvest of 2012!  This little yellow crookneck squash was not ready on Thursday but was a little bit over-ready when I picked it on Saturday.  They grow so fast! There are 2 more on the vine that will be ready in no time.  The zucchinni squash bushes are big and nice and green but I'm worried they are going to start smothering the hot peppers

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Time for a garden update!  Quick and dirty just for my future reference plus a few questions. And clearly  I had the iPad turned the wrong direction when taking my photos. The tomatoes are doing pretty well but a few are starting to get these cruddy leaves and I'm not sure why. Hmmm Strawberry patch! Glad we have the kind that keep producing instead of just one

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We have had pretty eventful weekends for several weekends in a row.  Several weeks ago Daniel and I decided to finally bite the bullet after two years of talking about it and we bought ourselves a couple of kayaks!  The only way I could get myself to do it was to call it our 1 year anniversary present, PLUS my birthday (this month) and Daniel's birthday in the Fall. Our sweet friend

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OK, so it's a little goofy that we're not making pizza on the Friday night that I institute "Pizza and Pinterest Fridays" but we USUALLY make home made pizza on Friday nights so the name is staying.  The plan is to do a little bit of discussing about whatever pizza we make each Friday and the recipe we use.  We're still searching for just the right dough recipe and I'm pretty sure I

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It has been one of those days. Actually it has been a couple of those days. I had a conversation with God on my commute home today (and some of you know the significance of that for me. Never mind actually talking about it publicly.) The results being many thoughts bubbling in my brain and heart that I can't really articulate yet. Maybe/ hopefully soon. We'll see. Last week was Daniel and my 1

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I have volunteer petunias coming up all over the place. In a pot for the 2nd year in a row as well as all around the new 4x10 raised bed! Those are the biggest surprise and they put such a smile on my face. We also finally have some poppies blooming from seeds we got for Christmas from Daniel's grandmother. They came from her own garden so they are extra special just like our blackberry bush from

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I started running the Couch to 5K last week and I finished the first week of the plan today.  I'm pretty impressed with myself because I have never been much of a runner, but this is a very simple program that tells me exactly what to do and works me up to my goal of running a 5K very slowly.  The goal is to run the Run to Remember in July benefiting the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

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A few nights ago I came home from work knowing that I really needed to mow the back yard. It was starting to get out of control.  Daniel mowed the front yard the week before and then he was sick as a dog for several days after. He used to mow my lawn for me sometimes when we were dating and never say a word about it making him sick. The things boys will do to get a girl to make out with

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No silver bells or pretty maids but there are lots of hot peppers! It's May Day and everything I had planned to put in the garden is already there. That's definitely a first. Two years ago I was scurrying to get as much planted as I could the first weekend in May before Daniel and I left for Memphis to go to Memphis in May. Last year was 3 weeks pre-wedding so that's pretty much a blur and I

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Trying out the Blogger Application. It's showing up all tiny on the screen so I'm guessing it's really an iPhone App. The keyboard is way too small to type much comfortably. So this one is probably not going to be my first choice but it IS free. It also looks pretty easy to post photos that are ON the iPad. Let's try it and see!

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I think I was sleep-blogging last night. That post has terrible flow, ideas that I meant to get across are completely left out and I made some really embarrassing grammar mistakes. Whoops. That's why this whole National Blog Posting Month challenge is probably going to be good for me. I clearly need the practice.My next goal is to choose a blogging App for the IPad. There are several to choose

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My husband is allergic to cats. Generally speaking, they make his throat close up and his nose stops working and he ends up asking someone to please just saw open his head. He failed to mention this to me for a very long time when we started dating. You see, I have a cat. A gorgeous, talkative, fetching (as in: she plays fetch) Siamese mix.Isn't she pretty?She is not a particularly social cat

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We are not an Apple household. I have an OLD iPod but it only works if it's plugged in. So maybe some Apple fanatic somewhere will find it the pinnacle of unfairness that my amazing husband WON us one at his work conference last week. Because we never would have bought one ourselves but we sure are enjoying it anyway. So I just wanted to see how complicated or difficult it would be to make

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Some people can plan a wedding and get extra work at their job and turn that into a prime blogging opportunity. I am not one of those people. We got engaged, we planned a wedding, we decided to get a puppy and reserved one, we got married, we went to Jamaica, we came home, our puppy was born, we went to a family reunion, we came home again. And our lives just keep changing. As we continue to

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I used to have a blog for approximately 3 days called "Where's the Ring?" I wrote about a few blind dates and then lost interest. The caption under the heading read:Whether it's family members asking me at someone else's wedding or I'm asking it of myself, this seems to be the question of the hour for a single 27 y/o woman. Why aren't you married yet?Between then and now a lot of people have

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Last week I got a half a bushel of apples on clearance for $10 and decided it was time to make some apple butter. YUM. I found out recently that you just make it in your crock pot! Easy as apple pie. You DO have to make the apple sauce first, but that's no problem. Unless, of course, you don't have a food mill. I just assumed I'd be able to pick one up at our local wholesale kitchen store

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Eureka Springs, that is. Daniel and I have been saying for over a year that we wanted to make it up to Eureka Springs to poke around but just never got around to it. There was an Ozark Folk Festival this weekend and it was a pretty day so we headed up this afternoon for a quick visit.Road Trip!!The Hill Benders--Love that Bluegrass!We wandered through the shops and when we came back by there

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  I won this in an Ebay auction today.  First Edition, 39th Impression Anne of Green Gables.  I could sing for joy.  I had resigned myself to never being able to own an early edition Anne of Green Gables.  They usually go for several hundred dollars.  I paid $36.55.  My heart might explode with excitement when it comes in the mail.  Anne calls very bad days

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For several weeks our pastor Robb has mentioned every Sunday that maybe it would be cool if everyone dressed like Bible characters or just anyone from church history on Halloween. At first it was "Wouldn't it be LAME if we did that?" And then "Wouldn't it be FUNNY if we did that?" And it finally ended up the week before Halloween with "OK, I can pretty much guarantee you a few extra jewels in

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I haven't posted in over a month, bad blogger, how very indicative of my lack of follow through and an ironic example of the whole reason I started this blog yada yada yada. Ok, now that that's out of the way let's continue like it never happened. Also sort of an ironic example of my character flaws. Moving right along.This month is apparently National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo aka "The

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Happy fun things and things and crummy ones. I got to visit my sister and her kids, my grandma and my brother and some of his kids last weekend. It was really nice. Driving around my college town in the cooling weather made me nostalgic. I hadn't been on a road trip by myself in a long time. Heck, I haven't BEEN by myself for more than a few hours in ages. I'm very busy and important.

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I usually don't buy plants at full price. I wait for the people at Lowe's or Home Depot or wherever to pretty much kill them and then put them on the "Almost Dead" rack. Then I pay 25cents for them and either nurse them back to health or I finish the job and they end up in my compost heap.Yesterday was the first time in ages that I'd been to Lowe's because a) I would definitely kill anything

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So the flashback to my tender years was brought on by me trying to decide whether or not it was ironic that the reason I hadn’t posted in two weeks on my blog (you know, the one about having too much on my plate & putting that plate aside for more plates?) was because I’ve been busy with hobbies and traveling and being lazy.  I put my shelves together and rearranged the sunroom into

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