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Deals at Olive Garden, Powell’s Books, Michael’s, and More!

Today, I decided to clean out my inbox and let everyone know about the sales that I had been sent email about. As always, this results in a mixed bag of deals from a variety of places. This time I found sales on books, deals on craft items, and an unusual freebie from Olive Garden. Olive Garden has a rather unusual deal going on right now. It is called “Go Out Today and Stay in Tomorrow”. To get this deal, the first thing you need to do is go to Olive Garden, and order a dinner meal. The dinner will … Continue reading →

How to Tell If Your Plants Are Drought Damaged

After the heat of the summer, you may feel like wilting. Chances are that your plants are feeling the same way. After all, it’s been very hot and very dry. As you move into the fall, you’ll need to take a look at your plants and evaluate them. Have they been permanently damaged by the drought? Is your plant stressed? Some plants go dormant during the summer months. Grass turns yellow or brown. Although it can be tempting to water these it, this is normal and if the fall brings moisture, grass will tend to recover. Plants can suffer from … Continue reading →

Where to Put Your Kid’s Stuff

It’s almost back to school time here. To me, that means cleaning time! It’s time to find a place for objects that have been roaming free around the house and the garden all summer. If you’ve decided to keep an item but it doesn’t seem to have a home, here are some storage solutions for your children’s stuff. We love baskets. I particularly love baskets on shelves. Baskets are easy to find at garage sales. Choose a deep basket that doesn’t tip over and cause toys to fall out. If you get baskets that fit a shelf, you can have … Continue reading →

This is the Rest of Your Life

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Have you grieved for your marriage? If not, you can’t heal. Although it’s not an actual death it is the death of your dream, that one that you’ve been carrying in your heart since you were a teenager. Mom and Dad who love each other raising a few perfect kids in a house with a white picket fence. It’s hard to let go and in order to let go you have to grieve what is lost. I’m not saying that you should wallow in that grief but just know that it is part of the process. Give yourself time to … Continue reading →

Adding a Little Sunshine to Your Home

As a new homeowner who is on a budget, I am always trying to find inexpensive ways to add some sunshine to my home. While I have a lengthy to do list of projects such as painting, bathroom upgrades, recess lighting installations, new windows, and other pretty major changes to make to my home, I know it is going to take awhile (maybe years) to get to all these ideas. In the meantime however, I would like my house to feel clean, fresh, and homey. I have found some ways to add color, cleanness and a warm feel to my … Continue reading →

Combining Genealogy and Gardening

I’m sure that I am not the only one that has memories of gardens from their childhood home and the homes of other relatives, such as grandparents. I distinctly remember my mother’s garden as well as my grandmother’s garden. My mother had beautiful irises growing along one side of the garden. There was a giant patch of rhubarb in the garden, and sometimes as a special treat, she would give my sister and me a stalk of it and a little sugar to dip it in. We also had some vegetables. The gardens at my grandmother’s house were mostly flower … Continue reading →

Start A New Tradition – Recycle Your Tree

Your family might have a lot of traditions surrounding Christmas that have been handed down from one generation to another. Does your family always get a live Christmas tree, instead of a reusable plastic one? If so, this year might be a great time to start a brand new Christmas tradition. How will your family recycle the Christmas tree after Christmas is over? Not every Christmas tradition is something that all family members can take part in. Not all young children are going to be ready to help decorate the tree. This is particularly true if the child is a … Continue reading →

The Vegetable Garden

It is spring in Australia and usually by this time the vegetable garden is in full swing. But this year, because Mick has been sick a lot and I’m not a gardener, it has been let go till yesterday. Yesterday we went and bought a number of plants. Given that our tomato plants were going in so much later than usual Mick had to buy larger and therefore more expensive plants than the seedlings he normally buys. This year he decided, because of the limitations of space and the price of buying plants these days, to concentrate on those things … Continue reading →

Turning Your Garden Blue

Here are some other ideas to turn your garden blue. I’ve included some of those that are mauve and purple as well, as they just look so great in a blue garden. One of my absolute favorites when it comes to trees is the jacaranda. They are a picture when they are in flower. The jacaranda is a deciduous tree and so it ends up looking like a dead stick in winter before it regains its leaves and then flowers. But there is nothing prettier than that jacaranda blue. I once wrote a poem called exactly that, about the small … Continue reading →

Gardening: Baby-Friendly Pest Control

Summertime is here, and with it comes gardening season. If you’re like me, you love the idea of eating organic without having to pay the hefty grocery bill. Planting a garden allows you to do just that. Eating healthy is important for people of all ages, but it is especially important for babies. What could be better than feeding your baby steamed green beans, broccoli, or carrots straight from the garden? When you plant your own food, you control exactly what goes into growing it: the soil, the fertilizer, and the pest control. I’m able to plant a garden for … Continue reading →