I know it’s making excuses, but seriously I forget to check every day! Since the recent attacks on the website and the heightened security, I have to go through each comment and decide if I can approve it or not. Since I let the last bad actor in and they did a couple of hundred dollars worth of damage, I am being pretty picky. However, I approve everyone we know,…

The last few days have been warm enough to wear a sweatshirt without a coat. At night it rains, waking up plants, melting the hidden ice and the last of the piles of compacted, dirt encrusted snow. My yard is taking shape. We gathered all the newly downed limbs, cut up sticks and raked up the leaves. Lots to do but also plenty of new discoveries. Our first Spring in…

I’m not sure why, maybe to celebrate spring, or because I had gotten a bag of lemons on sale, but I got up one morning this week and decided to candy some lemon slices. It’s an easy process, put a little water in a nonstick pan, add sugar, enough so it cannot desolve, add the lemon slices, then turn up the heat to a slow boil, making a syrup. Cook…