Choosing to Live Life Simply and Happily
Do you remember all the posts last year on our yard? I also had a bunch of goals in mind for this year; some of them I have shared with you all, and some I’m still formulating since we’re at the beginning of the gardening season. I created a digital image last year for what our yard would look like: Last fall, I sat in on forty hours of master gardener classes on all sorts of topics. What else was I going to do in the breaks between...
Have you seen the rest of EmSun’s coverage of Chalk the Walk? You might want to start here: Get Your Graffiti On Mid-Way Part 1 Mid-Way Part 2 At the end of the festival, I went back to take some follow-up photos of some pieces that hadn’t been finished before. In addition, I snuck back up to take some photos of doodles my kids had done. Enjoy! ...
If you haven’t see the beginning of the festival and people working on their drawings, feel free to click back. I’ll wait for you. There’s also part 1 of this post! I went back up to survey main street early on Sunday morning to get the “half-way” point of the festival. Look at the progress made in just one day! Check back later for more photos taken at the end of the festival! ...
I’m continuing my photographic coverage of Chalk the Walk. If you haven’t see the beginning of the festival and people working on their drawings, feel free to click back. I’ll wait for you. I went back up to survey main street early on Sunday morning to get the “half-way” point of the festival. Look at the progress made in just one day! Check back later for more photos taken at the end of the...
It’s that time of year again with my second-favorite festival in Mount Vernon: Chalk the Walk! Live musicians, local food vendors, and artists flock to the streets during the festival where chalk panels are sketched and blended on our temporarily-closed main street. The community gets together and for 10 bucks a square, you get a box of chalk and a small part of a huge art piece to do your thing. In the end, the patchwork panel (too large...
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First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Published by Harper Perennial Released on April 4, 2006 978-0-06-085626-7 I’m not entirely certain what I expected, but what I got was not it. Instead, I got so much more. Fictional Hunger Games move over, because this haunting memoir will really tell you of pain and suffering by digging deep into the depths of your empathy, affecting your heart and soul. Loung Ung, the author, tells a story of...
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I did not realize that Melissa Coleman was the daughter of four-season farming guru Eliot Coleman until almost 300 pages into the book. While it is embarrassing for me to admit this, I also believe in telling the truth - faults and all. Once I realized this, I had to laugh since I had Four-Season Harvest
I’ve been really quiet lately and I’ve got a good reason for it: drama, trauma, and unending nausea. Much TMI In late January I quickly figured out something was up when my body stopped doing it’s usual thing. We’d been trying to get pregnant for multiple months with little to no success, but something just didn’t feel quite right. The last week of January I took a home pregnancy test and it was negative. I was very...
Not sure what’s going on? See Part I: Raised Bed Gardening/Square Foot Gardening at Not A Lot of Plot. Yesterday I talked about what was covered in the class given by Deb Walser on raised bed and square foot gardening. Today I’m going to talk about what I specifically learned and how I’m going to apply that for next year. You might want to grab a cup of coffee. This is a long one with lots of resources. First, an introduction...
You may remember this menu – I showcased it LAST week. I’ve never been a big one for showing my menu for the upcoming week. I don’t like it because I like to take photographs of my food and share them with you all and I can’t do that if I’m working on a future menu. Therefore, while I will continue to menu plan each week, I will be showing you what I actually ate the previous week. Then I can include photos,...
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