If you’ve ever taken a high school chemistry course or even a general science course in junior high you are familiar with the term “supersaturated solution”. Who hasn’t done the experiment with dissolving loads and loads of salt or sugar…
Bountiful Beautiful Blooms
The blooms from my garden are beautiful this year. Last year I had very few because the plants were fairly new. This year my daylilies and asiatic lilies have decided to bloom. I just wanted to share my bounty of…
Evil Among Us, 1: What's the Fascination with The Occult?
This will be my first in a series of posts examining this question and the origins of popular occult practices. The word occult can mean something as simple as being hidden from view. When used as a noun as in…
What is Fibromyalgia?
I ask this because I really don’t know. My mother has been fighting against a seemingly unidentifiable immune disorder for many years. She is unable to eat sugar in almost all it’s forms which for a fruit lover is torture. …
Update on Winter Sowing Experiment
Believe it or not some of my wintersown seeds that actually bore seedlings are just getting into their permanent home in the ground. I have some White Swan Echinacea and Japanese Irises that actually sprouted in June and survived the…
Will Daddy come for the tea party?
Monday afternoon we called Daddy at the office after Yeyda’s nap. She was in a good mood and made sure to say hi to her cousin and both uncles that work there. Daddy brought up something about her “castle” in…
Watch me morph into Jessica Alba
This feature of MyHeritage may end my days of thinking I’m ugly. I think that Jessica Alba is a very attractive woman and if I even slightly resemble her how can I be ugly? Oh well, that will at least…
What's Your Favorite Sales Widget?
I’ve been parousing the variety of WordPress compatible widgets available across the web for sales via a blog lately. It really is difficult to decide which will be best to use. So, I decided to write this post to get…
Hail Shreds Local Plantlife
Last Sunday we had a hailstorm that ripped through Northwest Ohio. It took a full 20 to 30 minutes to pass each place it hit. This gave it a chance to pummel the trees, flowers, and crops across the region. …
Pink Lemonade 100th Post Contest
The Pink Lemonade boutique is having another contest. This time the prize is an absolutely darling “Retro Kiwi Flowers” tote. The bag totally caught my eye before I even knew there was a contest. You have until noon Central time…
It's been a good week to be outside
This week the weather has been in the low 70’s and beautiful. Not until today have we had rain. All the windows in the house were open until yesterday when the temperature peaked above 80 and the house was getting…
Hardening Off my Tomato and Pepper Seedlings
It has taken a while but finally the pepper seedlings have come up. Probably, I could have taken the tomatoes out about a week ago, but morning sickness had me doubled over and too tired to care much about seedlings. …
I'm momma to a little bean
We went to the OB/GYN on Wednesday and got to see our baby for the first time. We are proud parents of a lima bean – at least that is what the baby looks like right now. It is incredible…
Protect Your Family While Blogging
After a few months on the Entrecard circuit I’ve noticed one thing – there is a plethora of people willing to divulge every little detail about their lives, even their children’s lives. I’ve done my fair share of sharing, but…
Backyard Nursery, Flower Gardening, Gardening, Gardening - General, Herb Gardening, The Garden, Vegetable Gardening
Transferring Seedlings to Pots
This is always one thing that makes me nervous in the growing process – repotting your new seedlings. Sherxr from Ur Resident Chef had a question about when and how to repot. Well, I’ve had my share of successes and…
Sowing Seeds of Love
Over the past few weeks since I started my workout routine I had a feeling that something was up. If you’ve read my blog posts from the beginning you’ll find some irony in what I’m about to tell you. After…
Winter Sowing Experiment Follow Up
Even though it seems I’ve had more failure than success at this endeavor it wasn’t a total loss. There are some Japanese Irises that are growing; they are no more than 1/2 an inch tall, but they are growing. Also,…
Most Disgusting Restaurant Offerings, #1
I’ve been reading many blogs lately about food. Everyone talks about the foods they love and the best meals they’ve had. Given the fact that right now nothing sounds good to me, not even my favorite foods, it gave me…
Pink Lemonade Spring into Summer Sweepstakes
I’ve been entering all sorts of contests this morning. Guess that’s what happens when you have to get up at 5:30 in the morning to send your hubby off to Columbus and can’t go back to sleep. Anywho, Pink Lemonade…
I am blog #1392 on the Million Blog List
Today I listed this blog on the Million Blog List. In less than a month they’ve gotten almost 1400 blog owners to voluntarily list their blogs. Their purpose is to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blog…
I am blog #1393 on the Million Blog List
I listed my blogs today on the Million Blog List. The point of the site is to see how long it will take to get oen million blogs to list themselves on their site. They started their listing on April…
