This post was a bit too painful for me to make three weeks ago when this actually happened…but I guess time has dulled the pain a bit. My wonderful husband bought me 120 multi-colored tulips for Valentine’s Day and our house was just filled with them. I actually had a buy a couple of vases […]

The gardening fever is striking us again (thankfully since we have a nice big space to utilize back there) and we’ve just starting a ton of seeds….of course we are only writing about it on our self-sufficient / garden blog, Self-Reliant Yuppies, so if you want to see what we’re up to, please go drop […]

So I’ve mentioned that we got seeds from Burpee a few times now…and you may be wondering what we ordered…so here goes – it’s a LONG list, I know. But the seeds there cost a fraction of the price here, especially for chili seeds so even with shipping them over here, it’s totally worth it. […]

Because this is a blog about becoming more self-sufficient and “green” in general, I had a brain storm…well it actually resulted when I was feasting on the Burpee seed catalog and noticed a little gadget they have to assist in the making of newspaper pots. We get 4 free newspapers delivered to our house each […]

Ayla turned 2 years old on Saturday…and of course she made out like a bandit! One of the great things about dogs is that they get as excited about toys as most children do. Our two cats, on the other hand, look at us like we’re dumb when we bring them a new toy. So […]