Wow, the time has really flown by, and it would take a very long post to update every single thing.  Goodness. Thank you all for your advi...

Even though I know spring planting time is not here yet, it was depressing to know that there was a freeze warning out last night for us, an...

  It's nearing the end of our garden season.  The rain is arriving here, so I will wait for the garden to dry up before pulling some mor...

  A few of you have mentioned that purging/organizing/tossing seems a bit overwhelming.  Well, this is how I do it. I put the boxes of ...

  I forgot to mention, I baked a sheet pan chicken dinner with brussel sprouts and carrots when Daughter E visited.  We cracked open a jar o...

We went on yet another camping adventure, and a well deserved retreat.  Just the outdoors, nature, card playing, music, campfires, campfire ...

  It's been a whirlwind of a weekend, although we got our 2nd camping trip squeezed in.  I'll have the full report on that tomorrow ...

We got our first camping trip in this year.  We haven't camped since 2019. Although we decided (and a good decision) to pack up early be...

Got back from our first camping trip last night.  Puppy spent the weekend with his buddies Zuri and King, and with the kids. ...

Winter is a good time for me to sit and make homemade campfire fire starters, but I recently made another dozen. You can get directions here...

The rain took a day off, so that meant the spectacular event called laundry.  The lines were loaded.  Followed by lots of dish washing, vacu...

I just realized, if I run out of pantry and freezer space, I can always utilize my dehydrator. I can make tomato sauce leather.   You si...

Although we picked the hottest, most humid weekend to camp, we went.  Eve n though the air conditioning w asn 't working in the truck,...

We've been "off line" for a while so these are posts will catch up all up to date.  Hubby took us camping!  Oh the fun! ...

I have been searching for a replacement bulb for this battery operated camping lantern for two years.

Remember all those English Walnuts we bartered for?  I was still cracking them this month.  Apparently , the kids have lost their mojo with ...

Yesterday's chores were still getting worked on when the kids got home from school.  I had to get everything washed and on the line a...