Sunday, November 6, 2011


It has been a while sense I have posted.  I had quite an interesting summer, my garden did ok, I canned my little heart out, Bert and I went on a two week road trip that rocked and I have not had a boss for the last 6 months (whee). 
I plan to go half time in January to work on some projects that I have put off because of work. (this blog included whee!) I am planning to update on all the crazy shenanigans soon!

Im baaaack!

Saturday, March 12, 2011

For Maggie


Planting schedule

I made up a planting schedule for myself for this year's garden.I am already behind schedule, I don't have a space cleared or the sun to grow anything but here I go again! I am determined sun or no sun I am squeezing something edible out of my tiny yard.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Grammar Nerds


Yes you know who you are :) . I surround myself with grammar nerds who have pet peeves about poor spelling and grammar usage . I find this ironic in a way because a lot of you follow my blog (and I even married a spelling bee champ). I probably would be a grammar nerd too if I had the type of brain that worked in the realm of spelling and grammar but I don't so I simply do not see it. It usually makes me giggle to see people's reactions (but sometimes not). I am a highly educated person who is very intelligent, I just don't know where to put that damn coma! For anyone out there who regularly has to find appropriate synonyms because spell check has "no suggestions found" to the word you are trying to spell, or use a word completely wrong because spell check put in a word that looks right but is not the word you wanted, I want you to know you are not alone, you too can succeed in a world of grammar nerds. We simply need to band together and stand up for our rights as the highly educated grammatically challenged minority. Put a coma where ever you feel could use one, and use way to many exclamation points to overcompensate to make them squirm!!! Wheeee!!!!!!!! exclamation points are fun!!!!!!!! :)
(because studying endless grammar books and spending hours proof reading 5 line e-mails before you send them has not worked so far)

Monday, February 28, 2011

Tomato Sauce, Cherry Jam and English Muffins Oh my!


I took a snow day last Friday because it was really pretty and my car doors were frozen shut. I spent the entire day cooking. I peeked into our chest freezer (which is always a scary experience this time of year as the organization efforts have faded and all the stuff at the bottom starts showing up at the top.) I found some frozen Tomatoes from last summer's CSA crop and some Cherries (I will not tell you how long they were living in there but i am sure they had a nice little civilization set up before I ripped them from their home) and found stuff to do with them. I ended up with 4 quarts of passable tomato sauce and one ruined batch of Cherry Jam and 4 pints of yummy cherry jam. and then I made muffins again. (I am getting good!)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Thoughts on Debt

Bert and I have been doing a lot of planning around getting rid of our debt. We only have our mortgage and my school loans so we are not as bad off as some but the debt still seems insurmountable. When talking to people they refer to our debt as "good debt" which is an odd way to look at it. I think of it more as we spend most of our money on interest which is actually nothing. It is a hard thing to choose between living in the now and spending our resources on adventures or taking all our money and sinking it into our debt. I know the answer is somewhere in the middle. I just wish I knew where.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Making Won Ton

Now I just need to learn how to make Won Ton skins from scratch and brew my own Soy Sauce

Friday, February 18, 2011

REALLY?!?


Politics already! For those who do not follow self sufficiency type stuff you will not get this post. For those who do, I am a few days late but I am rather peeved at the attempt to Trademark a term that has been around forever! This is my act of defiance however little it may be :)

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Veggies in Part Shade


For the last three years I have attempted to grow vegetables in my tiny yard and I have utterly failed mostly because I only have part sun.(partly because of the neighborhood cats) I almost gave up but then I did some research on vegetables OK for part shade and I will try it again. So stay tuned…

English Muffin Experiment


 Bert and I eat an English muffin sandwich every morning for breakfast so I decided to attempt making English muffins. I imagined that they would turn out disastrous but they turned out relatively easy to make.  They were not perfect as I hoped and they were not disastrous as I suspected so go me!
If you want the recipe I tried you will find it here:Whole Wheat English Muffins

Doodle Blog


I have been wondering about my life a lot lately and have been craving some sort of direction. I like my job fine and I love the people I work with but I don’t feel like my life has much meaning. I have always been fascinated by what I call the “almost lost arts” things people had to do every day that we no longer do. Last week I came across the book Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes. I read it in three days and it spoke to me. While I do not agree 100% with what she said most of it made sense to me and just highlighted what I have been thinking about since before I even started college. I decided to stop thinking about making changes and learning new skills and just do it, no more excuses. So here is my blog chronicling my adventures in homemaking. The only catch is that I really don’t like writing so instead I am going to doodle my thoughts. So I guess this is my Doodle Blog with a little writing and bad spelling/grammar thrown in for good measure cuz that’s how I roll.