This morning as Ayla was persuading me to go for the walk (I wanted a warm cup of tea first but she wasn’t having it), I looked up at the sky and decided she was probably right. The clouds had been getting a bit darker and it was looking like rain. The last thing I […]

My dad sent me this video and I found it really, really moving. There are some fabulous shots with dogs in here although there are no Newfies…sad but true. There are two slide shows, one with words and one without, which were originally a poem for a little Maltese named Maui. Something to tug at […]

Once again, I have to love This Old House. In last week’s newsletter, they were talking about making homes better for baby boomers. Well, hubby and I are far from that age bracket but we are planning to install undercabinet lighting sometime in the near future in the kitchen and this article should be rather […]

Hubby and I are starting to feel old. We know we’re not, but we’re approaching thirty and our 10 year class reunions from high school are coming up…and it makes you just want to stop counting birthdays. I have recently said I’m just going to age until 25 or 30, then go back down to […]

Working on the vegetable garden this weekend made us really want plan out our garden for this summer. But one thing bothered us. Having never really had the space available to actually grow enough vegetables to supplement us with our own stuff during the growing season we have no idea how much space each vegetable […]