A month ago (really? a month already?) I posted about how much I hate chores. However, after a certain point, a dirty / messy house drives me nuts too. So today, to nurture my creativity, I used my time to wash bedding for us and the dogs, vacuum, clean the kitchen, pay bills, and do…
Burpee has a fun little contest going on over at Pinterest. Oh wait, did I forget to tell you I’m on Pinterest now? Sorry about that. Yeah, I started doing it several weeks ago. It’s a great activity when I wake up at 3 am and can’t get back to sleep. I know it’s a time…
This week’s theme for Six Word Friday is “return”. It is a good description of my daughter helping me plant the garden this last weekend: Order returns to the garden again. I ended last year’s garden feeling pretty discouraged. The tomatoes either rotted or got eaten, and while we picked a fair amount of winter squash,…
It’s been an interesting weekend. This month is yearend close where I work, and it was likely we’d work late every night as well as every weekend for the month. Numbers weren’t ready by Friday night, so I didn’t work Saturday after all. I worked today, but still got home at a decent time. That is nice…
© 2011 dogear6 llc Whenever the question is asked what I do with the parsley that I grow, my answer is that I grow butterflies! Every year since I’ve had my herb garden containers on the deck, I’ve had butterfly eggs grow into caterpillars which then went into the chrysalis. Eventually it splits and a black swallowtail…
Shortly before going to Atlanta, my spearmint was dying in the center of the pot. I found it odd that the heat would affect it like that, as in past summers the heat never fazed it. While I was gone, my favorite boy toy moved the herbs to stain the deck and discovered that the…
In past years, I kept the basil cut way back to encourage it to keep growing. This year though, I let is just grow and grow so that it would bring bees into the garden. It’s gotten super big! It’s probably about four feet tall, and so heavy it’s bent way over, nearly touching nearly the…
Sometimes it’s hard wrapping my head around a new project, especially something I haven’t done before. There are different ways to start, one of the best being watching someone else do it first. Someone explaining how to start is nearly as good. One great thing about maturity is that it gets easier to start new projects…
Yes, yes, I used that one!! And I use it every time I go to Starbucks and get an iced tea – “I would like a black, unsweetened, venti iced tea. Shaken, not stirred.” They laugh at me, but the truth is that they actually make their tea by shaking it in a martini shaker. And…
Living The Seasons 