#100HappyDays: Keeping vampires at bay
Makings for Fiery Roasted Garlic and Tomato Soup, a fave! What better than hot soup after a hard day of yard work …
#100HappyDays: Happiness by the yard
Two and a half yards of shredded cedar. Half of the load I wheel barrowed into place today. One of the few …
Rated R fridge art as diet motivation
Oh did you think I was going to show you the goods? “You’re going to want to remember this,” she said, wielding …
#100HappyDays: A Butterfinger Blizzard
Happiness is a Butterfinger Blizzard shared with the one you love. What’s your happy? xoxo, shawna #100HappyDays1. 24 Hours of Happy2. If …
#100HappyDays: Cool as a…
Cucumber seedling, of course. happy: A couple more hours in the garden. I always forget how busy Spring prep and transplanting can …
#100HappyDays: Sweet peas
Sweet peas are as sweet as they look–super fragrant! (In fact, so fragrant that those of us with smell sensitivity keep them …
#100HappyDays: Transplants
Clockwise from the top left: African Daisies in the big round pot, zucchini, jalapeno, mystery tomato, Japanese maple. Bottom row: A bunch …
#100HappyDays: A trip to the nursery
Today’s happiness high point? A visit to the nursery for mosquito-repellent plants (citrus geranium and catmint) and compost, ahem. I spent an …
The quest for ‘black gold’ ends in composting failure
Six months ago, I expected to write an exultant post about my cultivation of the gardener’s best friend: black gold, aka compost, …
How to be a Woman: An accessible and funny discussion of the F-word
“You can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being exerted on women by calmly inquiring, ‘And are the men doing this, …