With the start of the new year, you're probably thinking of a few things you'd like to accomplish in 2012 and new habits you'd like to form. I've heard that creating a new habit takes about 3o days of constantly doing that task before it will stick. But the first 10...
Since Stefan and I got together over a DECADE ago (ack!), we have hosted quite a few New Year's Eve parties at our house. Most of the time they were quite intimate and casual, and they seldom involved fireworks since Ayla seems to get more and more disturbed by them...
Seeds. They are the life-force of your garden. Without seeds, most of the plants in our garden would cease to exist -- whether you are planting seeds yourself or using store-bought seedlings -- and in turn, life would become far more complicated since qe depend on...
I could hardly believe it when the call came in on Monday evening. Our new windows were being delivered to the window installer on Tuesday morning, and they wanted to set up an appointment to deliver them to us and get started with the installation in the afternoon....
Since Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching (and I'm going to be running around like the Tazmanian Devil for a few days), I thought I should take a few calm moments to write about the things I'm thankful for in my life. Most of these are things that I'm blessed to...
Over the last 6 or 7 years, we have collected quite a collection of houseplants. Some of them have fared really well, and others I killed pretty quickly (like every beautiful orchid ever brought into our home).It's not that I intended for the plants to die; I just...
I know it's hard to believe, but Thanksgiving is literally just around the corner. I kind of hyperventilated a little when went on eBay yesterday and it said 47 days until Christmas! With only 16 days left until the main turkey event, now is the time to start...
It's been a couple of weeks since I actually talked about my garden, so I figured it was time to make a few notes about what's growing, what's been harvested, what I've done out there lately and where it's all headed next. Since we've had a few batches of frost here...
When we bought our house, it was a 3 bedroom, 1 bath house. Actually, I guess you could consider it a 3/1.5 since there is an outhouse in the courtyard (which we thankfully never have to use). So one of the very first projects we had our contractors work on was adding...
Long-time NOH readers will find it no surprise that we have begun really enjoying to make wine over the last 3 or 4 years. It's not something I've really talked a lot about because it's a rather involved process, and we were really still trying to learn what...
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