Counting Stars: Don’t skimp of the tissues

by | May 30, 2008 | Blog, book review

I made a bad decision last night. I needed something to help me relax at bedtime, so I dug through my stack of unread books and pulled out Michele Paige Holmes Counting Stars. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to put it down easily, because I had heard so much...

Plants in Unexpected Places

by | May 30, 2008 | Blog, gardening, plants

Got your veggies in yet? The one part of gardening I don’t love (besides the weeding, which isn’t all that bad if it’s not too hot out) is watering. Let me get my hands in the dirt, or plot out where everything is going to go. Better yet, let me...

Gardening Like Laura

by | May 26, 2008 | Blog, gardening

If you discount snitching peas off the vine when I was a preschooler as actual gardening experience, you could say I first began gardening in my early elementary school years. The summer after I discovered Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books, I was...

Growing Babies In My Pantry

by | May 24, 2008 | Blog, chickens, incubation

Back in March I found out one of my geese was laying eggs. I was so excited and eagerly checked the nest every few days to see if she had added any more. I counted out how long before there would be enough for her to start sitting on, and then how long it would take...

Saying goodbye to an old friend.

by | May 22, 2008 | Blog

No, there hasn’t been a death in the family, or even in the barn yard. Chicken yard? I’m not sure of the right terminology. Nope, this week we sold my lovely white Kia Rio. We’ve had that car since we bought it new off the lot seven years ago with...

Where did spring go?

by | May 15, 2008 | Blog, gardening

When things heat up, it’s time to play in the dirt. Yes, I know the last frost date for my area isn’t for another two weeks, but since all of the daffodils and tulips have died out, and the irises are just getting ready to bloom, my yard is looking pretty...

The Lure of a New Notebook

by | May 10, 2008 | Blog

I’ve been having a great time at the UAEMT conference in St. George this weekend as I’ve learned plenty about all kinds of subjects from ambulance safety to triaging at multiple casualty incidents to hands-on experience in a mock disaster at Tuacahn High School—which...

Ready for a Girls Day Out?

by | May 7, 2008 | Blog, crafts, DIY

A writing forum that I belong to had a discussion this past week about the many other talents we have besides writing. There were photographers, seamstresses, artists, musicians, and many other talents in our group–and less than a third of our group actually...

Bleary eyes in the clinic

by | May 1, 2008 | Blog

It’s been a busy couple of days for our ambulance service between two transfers up north and two calls to people’s homes. Then you add in regular life, work schedules, the health fair most of us made time to help with yesterday, etc and you have a to...