Cupcakes and Commentary

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I’m not sure if holding on to the basil is a good thing. I could just run up to the store and buy a pretty new basil plant, but I’m determined to try to reinvigorate this one.

This time of year, a glorious day can quickly become a turbulent storm, so we try to take advantage of every great warm day when we can. Yesterday we…. Went to “the gym”, had lunch with Papa, took a walk, checked the garden…. And our shovel… (Yup still looks good) Cooked hamburgers on the grill [...]

Our little munchkin is still sleeping in his crib for now, but as he is almost one and a half we have added a blanket and several “peeps”. “Peeps” is our term for the plethora of stuffed animals that fills his crib. His quick witted cousin coined the term for his own animals and it [...]

Our temperatures have fluctuated between 70 degrees and sunny, to around freezing and snow in a matter of about two days. Knowing that this weather was coming we nevertheless decided to get out while it was still nice on Saturday and refurbish the garden. A trip to Lowe’s, one tomato plant, a shovel, and four [...]

Doesn’t this make you want to run out and start your own garden? The twisty branches, dead grass, and leaves that are mulching themselves make me wonder if there is any possibility that this compost looking heap can actually turn into a real garden again. I especially laughed at the tiny rain gauge sitting in [...]

Today we basked in the sunlight… …and took down St. Patrick’s Day decorations.

I have literally been waiting months for the new collection that Target has brought to its stores. It is called Liberty of London and obviously it is from London. It’s a complete collection from clothes to home decor…what I love about it is that they specialize in actually making textiles (not just creating collections, but [...]

Despite my sense of impending doom, we are trying gardening again this Spring. After our results of last Spring/Summer being well disappointing (five cherry tomatoes. One rotten pepper. An ambush of mint.) we are going to clean out and try again this year. Right now our vegetable bed is a series of sticks and rotten [...]