Jelly Doughnuts It all started because of blueberries. We seem to be up to our ears in blueberries. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a good problem to have. Last summer our blueberry bushes performed great! Thanks to their generous production, we still have several gallon bags of blueberries sitting in deep freeze. I got a wild…
Getting Your Kid Into Bird Watching How do you start? Observe. We always had a bird feeder in our yard. Our boys walk by our front kitchen window and stop several times a day to watch the birds feed. They are also involved with filling the feeders and cleaning up the mess the birds leave…
The Buy Of The Week Planting roses has not always been on my agenda. It’s funny the progression my gardening philosophy has gone through. It used to be “I’ll only grow it if I can eat it.” Then it was “Other than my veggies and herbs, anything I plant has to take care of itself…
A Good Reason to Send a Card After I posted the DIY Botanical Envelope tutorial earlier in the week, I decided to whip up some pretty, flowery cards. I was inspired by these wonderful watercolor graphics from Angiemakes.com. She graciously offered some of her graphics for free, so I had to make something with them!…
An At-Home Conservation Project For The World The Great Backyard Bird Count is a project of Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The National Audubon Society, in which everyday people, wherever on earth they are, count the numbers and species of birds they observe. This annual event takes place each February over a four day period….