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Farmer Friday: The Beginning of Summer
In mid-March I started heirloom tomato seedlings in an egg carton and they are now flowering. Last night for dinner I went out to my raised garden bed and gathered enough lettuce for a nice salad. And...
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Farmer Friday: Floating Fruit
A few weekends ago my husband and I went to Sunset Magazine’s Celebration Weekend with some friends. This magazine focuses on “Living in the West” including gardening, home design/decor, cooking,...
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Making an Unfinished Attic into a Usable Space
Ever since my husband and I moved into our house in October 2010 we have been working on projects large and small in order to improve what was once a complete fixer-upper into a desirable home with the...
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Famer Friday: A Real Farm
My husband always teases me that I should be living on a farm between all my gardening, cooking (and canning lately!), and desires to own chickens. Instead, we live in a small tract home where I claim...
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Farmer Friday: Apple Picking (in California)
Most people hear “apple picking” and think of a chill in the air, scarves, tromping through a bucolic orchard and maybe coming back to the farm house to get apple cider and apple cider donuts. Or maybe...
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Welcome to the Future
Picture some tacky, clubby “unce unce” music coming on after reading that title, will ya? No? Not feeling it? I am. Because seriously, I think 2013 is going to be my lucky year. It’s my lucky number...
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Nothing Says “Welcome Home” Like Giant Zucchini
Been away from the blog for a bit so I’m making a comeback with the same thing that welcomed the husband and I home from a week of July vacation: gigantic zucchini! Not the first time we’ve come home...
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Our New House
The big reveal is finally here! This is our new house! And in case you can’t tell by just that one picture, it’s a bit of a 1940 fixer. But a move-in-ready fixer (as evidenced by the fact that we’ve...
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The Vision for Your Home
When you move to a new home– be it apartment, condo, house, or whatever — do you start thinking about how you’re going to make that space the best space for you inside and out? Maybe you can picture...
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The Waiting Game
The question everyone has been asking my husband and I lately now that we’ve been in the new house for seven weeks and three days: “How’s the house coming along?” The usual response for most people...
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