All Entries in the "Lifestyle" Category
Garden: Garden Help From Grandma
I received an email from my Grandma this week, in which she sent me some ideas out of one of her garden magazines.
I am constantly amazed by my grandparents.
I know people half their age who would never be able to send an email with scanned attachments,
or even know that it is possible.
This [...]
Kubota in the Snow
As the weatherman predicted, we got almost two feet of snow this weekend! Yay!
We had the opportunity to see how our tractor would do pushing snow. Before we purchased the tractor, we saw You Tube videos showing the impressive power that it had pushing snow; but we had never tested it ourselves. It was great!
Ryan [...]
Photo of the Day 12.18.2009
If we do in fact get 12-18 inches of snow, it will officially be the most snow I have ever seen! Yay!
Oh, and don’t worry about us. . .
Ryan has made sure that we will have everything we need if we lose power–
he put the bucket on the tractor, got out the [...]
Photo of the Day 9.22.09
A couple of weeks ago, Jenna and Josh made dinner, Tacos; and put all of the Taco toppings in this gorgeous Lazy Susan basket Ryan’s Aunt Nellie made for us:
Doesn’t that look delicious?
She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
We recently went through the process of buying a small tractor to make our lives more simple. We have about six acres to mow and a ton of landscaping to do so we thought it would make sense to buy a tractor to make things easier.
The most important things, I’ve learned when buying a tractor is:
1. [...]
Magic Dirt
I recently got an indoor herb garden kit, the manufacturer announced, on the box, that it included everything that I would need, except for water, to grow gorgeous herbs.
But. . .
when I opened the box, I looked in and said, aloud, those idiots forgot about dirt!
Then I saw these:
When I saw [...]
“Feelin’ figgy?”
My Grandparents were in the newspaper, The Virginian Pilot, this weekend!
They were interviewed for an article about their fig crop.
Please check out the article! Click here.
Grandma’s Fig Preserves:
Fresh Figs:
Hibiscus
Monday night my Mother-in-Law brought us some flowers; as an extremely fair barter for a fresh batch of green beans and potatoes.
We received some lilies and blossoms from her Hardy Hibiscus.
Although the hibiscus does not produce much of a cutting flower, they are absolutely gorgeous while they last!
The Hibiscus blossom in this photograph is nearly [...]
