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Tasty Tuesday: Basil, Basil Everywhere!
Now that the rows of plants are up, thick and fighting for room, I am thinning them. Basil is such a hardy plant and will grow well neatly stretching next to branching plants left and right. But since I want to use some now, it is a good idea to pull some plants, use them and in the mean time credit my farmer’s sense with thinning the crops! (Born and bred right by the George Washington Bridge did not lead to gardening! But a Hoosier hubs taught me this love!)A large dehydrator has 5 shelves. One plant per shelf fills the dehydrator which takes 24 to 36 hours to dry…
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A Peaceful Setting Soothes
A peaceful setting soothes the heart. So simple and true. And when it is at your fingertips how sweet is that!A garden provides so many advantages: outdoor activity, blooms that bring color and fragrance indoors. There is a tracking of the seasons with flowers, bushes and shrubs. Winter was officially over when our irises pushed their way out of the ground and stuck purple and blue lipstick tubes up in the air. At their feet popped the Johnnie jump-ups, bachelor buttons and delphinium. Then came peonies, lilies and pansies springing to life. Now it all out there: sprays of colors, smells and beauty! So, what should you do? BRING IT…
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Earth Day 2010
I will tell you I’m not a ‘tree-hugger’. I spend probably too much money on pre-packaged foods. I always seem to forget to bring my own environmentally-friendly bags to stores – even though I do have a few of them. I don’t drive an oversized-SUV but my smaller size mini-van isn’t exactly the most economical vehicle out there. But I do care. I do know that I can make a difference. I am not going to change the hole in our ozone layer. I’m not going to save the world with some major campaign about how we are all doomed if we don’t make a change. I can hardly say…
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Season Passes and Getting to know the community
I love our area zoo. It’s not the biggest zoo I’ve ever been to (I’ve been to a few GREAT ones) but for our area it is nice sized. It is a great place to visit when we need a change of pace and it has an indoor ‘Rainforest’ so even during the winter we find ourselves packing up and spending a few hours with the animals. The boys love watching the otters, the toads, and creeping their momma out with the snakes. But individual tickets are expensive – $5 to $10 a person. Maybe that isn’t terrible if you make a family-day of it but if you just want to…
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A Minute out of the Norm: St Patrick’s Day Shamrocks
I have to admit it… I have the perfect kitchen door. It is a sliding glass door that catches the morning sun, brings about afternoon shade and a perfect view of the evening stars. I am a light-person. I crave sun-shine. I LOVE a warm sunbeam. Winter can be long and hard on me, especially in cloudy, wintry northern-Ohio. But back to that perfect kitchen door. It is a great spot to hang hand-made seasonal decor. We’ve hung painted-Easter egg crafts; Valentine Hearts; a cut-out snowflake or two; even some summer home-made flowers. If there is a decoration that can be made out of paper, made by a preschooler or grade-schooler … we…
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Thankful Thursday: Sunshine
This morning as I stood sipping coffee and folding laundry (not my favorite thing to be doing first thing in the morning … the laundry part) with my back to the kitchen glass-door I felt this warmth growing all around me. It started on the back of my neck, worked it’s way around to my shoulders, found the center of my back and then the legs of my jeans, finally it settled in to my very core.It was the sun, STREAMING through my window. A sign of warmer days to come. A sign of winter winding down. A sign that SOON I will be able to throw open the back door and…
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Happy (!?) Groundhogs Day
Dang … Apparently Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning. Six-more LONG weeks of winter ahead for us. I’m ready for sunny skies, bicycles, sidewalk chalk, and bubbles. Short sleeved shirts, suntan lotion, and deck chairs. Ah yes, spring and early-summer are my glory. My lifeline. This winter thing in February … March … even April here in northern-Ohio bites the big one. I guess for now I’ll have to be content with fuzzy sweater, warm blanket and cup of hot-tea to warm my bones. Stupid Stupid Traditions … this one ranks up there with ‘May Day’ for me! – Leanne from MilitaryAvenue.combyLeanneonTuesday, February 02, 2010Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare…
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Thankful Thursday: Sunny-Yellow Flowers
I am thankful for bright yellow-sunny flowers in the dead of winter; flowers from my wonderful husband for no apparent reason. Funny, he came home for a little while yesterday during lunch and was just a little-snippy. Not sure what was bothering him but his answers to my questions were short. His patience was very lacking. So what did I do in turn? I didn’t nag him. I didn’t get my undies-in-a-bunch. I just let it go. (I’m convinced that he sometimes gets a waft of my pregnancy-hormones … and we all know what they can do to us girls … well the mood-swing can be ten times worse for the…
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Popular Articles: Week of November 29 – December 5
Here were our top 10 most-viewed articles for the week on MilitaryAvenue.com: USAA Urges Home Protection as Winter Weather Approaches A Market that Rewards the ‘Sponsors’ “Elf on a Shelf” – A New Christmas Tradition What does PCS mean to our MilitaryAvenue Partners? Second-tier Entitlement and VA Loans Why is a Military Discount Valuable for a Marketing Strategy Sears Celebrates Military Heroes This Christmas With Programs That Give Back The Season of Advent Military Discount on your Truck or Trailer Rental Turkey in a Puff Leftovers Turkey Celebrated! Visit our Reading Room to find more relevant news!To find the most recent additions to MilitaryAvenue follow our RSS feedbyLeanneonMonday, December 07,…
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Peach Oatmeal Muffins
We are getting ready to go on a road trip. Dale likes to leave at 0 Dark Hundred. Earlier if he could… sigh. Driving out of our area we’ll see lots of deer (aghhh must be alert!), stars and a few farmers in the fields, but not a lot of McD’s, BK’s or anywhere that even the smell of coffee is available. So, for the first hour I pack 2 muffins and 2 travel mug of java. Have to have all the help I can to keep the eye lids UP! Last year, our farmer’s market had multiple peach booths. I bought multiple pecks of peaches. None went to waste.…
