I love Lucy!

…Gretchen and Buttercup! (That’s me with Buttercup.)

Orchid Happiness

A couple of years ago I asked for an orchid rather than cut flowers for Mother’s Day. After the blooms faded the plant stayed healthy but didn’t bloom again until I re-potted it with new orchid soil from MiracleGro. Since then I have divided and will divide again after this bloom event.

Square Foot Gardening

The first picture was taken yesterday; a bed of squash, cucumber, cantaloupe along with okra, peas, green beans and some flowers in front of a bed of azaleas. The second picture was taken of the same area 6 weeks ago (6/8/09). Most of my vegetable gardening has been in raised beds. This area had been [...]

Pickled Green Tomatoes & Peach Preserves

My favorite helper & favorite hen; Jonathan & Lucy!

A new batch of peach preserves.
Pickled Green Tomatoes Recipe from Michael Symon

Trying new recipes is always fun but today’s new kitchen adventure was special, pickling for the first time since I was a kid with 10 year old son. The tomatoes came from my garden, [...]

Victory Garden 2009

I’ve been gardening for a long, long time but have concentrated my efforts of perennials, flowers, etc. and not so much on a vegetable garden. A few tomato plants here and there and herbs but that was the extent of it. This year we are enjoying the fresh produce from our yard, more specifically, planted [...]

Gretchen…aka Bubbles

Bubbles has a new name and shall now be known as Gretchen! She’s a Lakenvelder, a German breed and I really wanted a name to suit her heritage. Crazy, I know.
They are enjoying a spell of free range time in the flower garden and where the compost pile used to be. Finding fat, juicy [...]

Mi Casa de Pollo

The chicken house is in place & the girls seem very happy in their new home. It’s tucked into the corner of my garden, fits right in & I can see the girls moving about in the run while I’m standing at my kitchen sink. Love that!

Chicks in the City

This was taken on Saturday and is our first egg!
 
Here are my new girls. They’ve been here almost a week now and I’m having so much fun watching there goings on and listening to their sounds. So far we’ve gotten 3 eggs, all from Lucy, the biggest hen. She’s an Athen’s Rare Breed. I [...]

A Dirty Little Workout!

Do you workout on a regular basis?
At home or a gym?
Solo or with a buddy?
Do you walk or run? wii fit, treadmill, swim, bike?
Having been a personal trainer and an aerobic instructor, worked full time in the fitness arena (YMCA!) for years I know the importance of cross-training, varying the mode of training. Also important [...]

In a Happy Place!

It’s been one of those glorious spring days here in Georgia! (This after cold & snow flurries Monday & Tuesday.) Easter is just around the corner …my white azaleas in FULL bloom.

The “Mother’s Day Red” variety is just beginning to open.

No make-up! Work clothes, garden gloves and sunscreen were the order of the day. [...]