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    “Mondays in My Garden”: Four Easy Ways to Save Money when starting your Garden

    March 11, 2013 /

    There are a few blogs that I just love. Household 6 Diva is one of them.  Ann Marie is a down to earth Army spouse recently relocated from Germany to Texas and there are so many times that I think, “Wow, would we be good friends if our lives had ever crossed.” She started a series called “Mondays in My Garden”.  Be sure to read her inaugural post here: Welcome to “Mondays in My Garden” Ah… my garden.  Just the thought of it has my heart smiling. Yesterday it was 72 degrees out in NE Ohio.  The back door was open all day.  The front door was filled with sunshine.  Smiles, laughs, giggles…

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    Starting Seeds in Milk Jugs

    March 4, 2013 /

    I’ve got the itch as anyone who follows my Gardening Pinterest Board very well knows. It’s the beginning of March and I want to be outside, in the dirt, enjoying the sunshine, hard work and noises and smells of Spring. But it isn’t that time in NE Ohio.  Instead the forecast still includes snow, the temperatures are still in the 30s and getting the rototiller out is no where in site.  Sigh… That is why I LOVE starting seeds this time of year.  I get my hands dirty.  I get to watch my plants start.  I get to dream about what my garden will look like this year. A good…

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    Oh My! The Numbers Are Dropping

    January 22, 2013 /

    That Downward Slope Good morning winter! I see you have arrived in splendor and beauty.The air is so cold outside that the snow shimmers.  Each individual crystal is just resting in layers, ready to fly again should any breeze catch a facet. Oh yes, it is January. Cannot complain about the temperatures… I just marvel!In Michigan we know seasons. It is time to be upclose (indoors with a quilt) and personal (lips locked on a large mug of something hot to drink) with this Winter Wonderland World! And the temperature just continues to drop!  And what goes down… must come up. Right? Join Us    byDeborahonTuesday, January 22, 2013Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestMilitary…

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    Snowmen Hanging In There

    January 26, 2012 /

    Tuesday has to be the best day, my favorite day; it is Esther and Jacob day.  For a few hours I have them in the center of my attention.  Their voices, bursting energy, spontaneous laughter and curiosity are with me.  This is a recipe for a successful day: mirth.Tissue falling everywhere! We cook, create with playdough, design with pastels and paper and we chatter.  Songs that I love to sing fill the car on the way down to the house only to be interupted by counting buses, both school and rapid transport.  Seseme Street’s Count vonCount would be oh so proud of my charges. Snipping corners for the perfect look.Each week we…

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    Seed Packets Promise a Garden of Beauty

    February 19, 2011 /

    We live in zone 5b. I did not realize this. I was a zip code and area code type person. Now, I can add planting zone: frost free date zone to my list of where to pinpoint my “home is where the heart is” on the map. Knowing your frost free zone is of premier importance for gardeners. It is the point where you little debutantes can come out and meet the world outside of the green house. I nurtured some impatiens and alyssum last year and saw their frozen little bodies worthless in a garden last year. Impatient can be imprinted on my garden gloves…. need to wait… need…

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    Taking Time to Taste some Green

    March 4, 2010 /

    Destination Georgia. Departure Michigan. Expectation sun and fun and warmth and great time with hubs.The destination occurred. Departure was early and accurate. Expectations can change like the weather. Fun with Dale… you betcha! Tennessee was coated with fresh snow. Drivers were jumping with frayed nerves. Rays of sunlight were sparking and flying with clods of snow flying off of car and truck roofs, as if snowballs were being thrown at the anxiety filled folks who’s windshields had refracted sunlight that caused their braking foot to clamp down to the floor. Yet they were able to breath. They made it through curves and turns and we made it to our hotel.…

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    Spring is on the calendar: Get Ready!

    March 1, 2010 /

    Springtime, it is written right there on our calendar. Tax return is there. Negotiate with a new trash company reminder circles Thursday’s date. Pick out new eye glasses after the 15th. All important steps in the health and welfare of the house. But the first… SPRINGTIME oh yes, that is the one that keeps me coming back and gazing at the neat rows of days.There is the heaviest blanket of sparkling snow outside right now. Deer tracks stripe the hill in the front. Squirrels send snowballs cascading off of the thick snow lined limbs and the birds are as active as I have seen them. There is movement! I am…

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    Wordless Wednesday: Hoping for a Snow-Day

    February 10, 2010 /

    Crossing our Fingers for a Snow Day*E*, 1st grade, even wore his pajamas inside-out.  He had high hopes…  They were, however, dashed this morning when all of our county’s schools were closed besides us and the one city north of us.  I am beginning to think this whole “pj-inside-out-superstition” is a conspiracy against grade-schoolers just wanting a day off.– Leanne from MilitaryAvenue.combyLeanneonWednesday, February 10, 2010Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestMilitary Life:Leanne,Wordless

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    (nearly) Worldess Wednesday: Sites of the Season

    December 9, 2009 /

    I have enjoyed the Christmas Season from Panama to Iceland and States all over the country. Each with it’s own unique ‘nitch’ on the month of December. (After all I can’t wear a sundress on Christmas in New York yet very comfortably did it in Panama. Snow skiing in Florida is out of the question but the mountains of Colorado & New Mexico were quite enjoyable. And we won’t even talk about the very dark December that Iceland entailed.) These are images of my Christmas season last year. You know what is even better about this year’s Christmas Season? HUBS IS HOME! Ah life is good! I hope you are…

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    Carrots Dressed for Spring with Herbs

    April 9, 2009 /

    I do love thinking about Springtime. I love seeing plants work their way out of ground that was just snow covered and hard as rock. Now, the plot looks earthy, moist and flower ready. With a selection of flowers to cut to bring into the house brings to mind the garden that will soon be alive with seedlings: our vegetable garden. It grows each year. Grows plants, grows in size and grows in richness as we take care of the soil and plot. I am just hoping the deer won’t think it is there growing for them… they are encroaching upon the environs of our house. We did see them…

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