Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, I hope you are doing well! Our weather has been really wonderful here - I keep waiting for the hot weather bomb to drop, lol. The weather people are saying a few days in the 90s next week, but that doesn't sound nearly as bad as the rest of the country these past weeks. There are two things I thought it would be good to talk about this week: No...
7 days agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, From now through September is the reason I work to grow a garden (and protect it from all our varmints.lol) - to go out daily and bring back a basket like this recent harvest: Berries, beans, peppers, and the first of the tomatoes (plus hidden underneath are a few cucumbers). I need a bigger harvest basket when I'm cutting whole heads of...
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Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Our summer continues along here with daily watering (I rotate the areas so only 1-2 are watered a day, plus the pots), harvests (green beans, cabbage, onion, carrots, beets, basil and the first of the tomatoes!), and lunches outside under the umbrella enjoying the view and blue skies.π We did meet some friends at a nearby lake to finally get...
21 days agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Nationwide, it's been an odd summer hasn't it? With lots of rain and flooding in the south and eastern states and in Oregon we're getting more 90 degree days than we have in the past with very little rain. So while I'd appreciate some rain to give me a break from watering, I'd prefer watering to floods, so I'll just keep watering and be...
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Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, I hope you've had a good week! We're spending this weekend at our daughter's new place (with her husband of just 5 months!), visiting and doing a bit of work around their property. The garden cabbages are coming in like gangbusters (no matter that I tried to stagger the plantings and varieties π) so with cabbage on my mind, I thought I'd share...
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Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Happy July 4th weekend! We're spending it with family at the Oregon Coast - I hope you've been able to enjoy some of the festivities and the long weekend. Because we're out of town, I'm sending a shorter newsletter today with summery dinner ideas from the month's menu as well as what's new on the blog (the Good Things List includes EIGHT books...
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Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, This last week we took a little mini vacation to visit Silver Falls State Park which is a little over an hour from us. We stayed a couple nights in this cute old-house-turned-inn (with a coffee store on the first floor - yay), and also got to check out antique stores in the adorable town of Silverton. I haven't been to the state park since my...
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Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, I've been enjoying the weather and fun of seeing the garden produce veggies and flowers. Right now I'm still enjoying watering in the mornings (ha! You know that won't last...) and we're almost done with all the "have-to" yard projects (I have one more pestering area to weed and protect from the deer). So, yeah - early summer.π Since summer is...
about 2 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Are you doing anything special for Father's Day with any important men in your life? Some years we've gone on a hike to a place Brian has chosen (though it hasn't always gone well - there was one year he ran over a squirrel in a parking area which put a pall over the day...), and some years we just hang out. But the last few years our extended...
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