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My four year old granddaughter entertains during halftime at the Super Bowl.  The parts without Elmo are less frenetic.  He brings out the worst in her, apparently.
 
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I have been avoiding making this post for a couple days, I admit.  I have something to tell you that is going to blow my austerity challenge out of the water. 
But first a bit of an update.  One of the two raised beds is finished and is half planted.  We are having several days of [...]

Another big day of hard work.  I finished layering the lasagna in Bed #1 today and planted some spinach and turnips.  That filled a little less than half the bed.  I think I will add carrots tomorrow, and end with bush peas.   
I buried a sort of a soaker hose in a double S configuration under [...]

Dear readers, this is the kind of tired that reminds you that you are alive.  After a long winter of waiting for the day I could start working “the land”, these muscle aches are SO welcome! 
Okay, so here’s what I have been doing the past two days.  You saw the picture yesterday, so you know [...]

HUGE day today…and it’s almost 7 PM and I haven’t made a cent at my real job today.   Must beg off a big post tonight, but here’s a picture of what I did with part of my day, so maybe you will forgive me!!!
 

No doubt about it, there was a warm, loving glow about the Poop Coop today.   Her name is Maureen!  She and her husband came by to start taking out the lemon tree this morning, and I had the joy of spending an hour with this amazing lady as we ran through in person some of [...]

I know…if I brag, it will freeze and all my plants will die.  But…..66 degrees in January! 
It’s only 4:00 in the afternoon, and I am already blogging because I have to work the rest of the day and I might not get to it.  So, here’s what today was like.   A BLESSING!!!!
I have received gifts [...]

Well, I heard from the insurance company today.  They will be sending a check on Monday.  The portion allotted for the roof is $600.  It was going to be more, but the roof is in such bad shape that they depreciated it quite a lot.  The fence numbers are fuzzy, because so much of it [...]

Bet you are expecting some kind of deep discussion on cutting away extraneous things in your life, right?  You know…pruning?  WRONG !  I actually took the pruning shears and went kind of nuts in the yard today.  First, it was 64 outside!  That’s warmer than it was in the house, so I toddled out in [...]