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So, I’m back from a four-day stint on the road. As I turned into my driveway on Friday night, I had just under 29 hours of billable time that I needed to get by the end of the year. Most of that came this week with the remainder the following week. Then, I largely shutContinue reading “Little left to do”

It’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Correction: it’s the Sunday after the last consecutive Thanksgiving that I’m hosting. The house is still relatively clean, the leftovers have been frozen and the china, “good” napkins and accoutrement have all been put away. In the meantime, kitties have been mentored and are slowly getting to be less work.Continue reading “The secret life of being a homemaker”

When I started this blog, I wanted to celebrate my new life and what was different. It was so important to me that I didn’t lose perspective of where I had been and where I was now going. It was nearly four years ago today that I left my executive career. I cried all theContinue reading “Life, changes and the pursuit of peace”

Well, not completely. There are four heads of celery that need to be harvested and a few more carrots in the ground. But, neither are a big deal in terms of work. The celery will take longer to clean than it will to chop the stalks and dry the leaves. The carrots will be pickedContinue reading “And the garden goes fallow…”

My niece and her boyfriend, who bought their first house this August at the ripe ages of 23, want to begin hosting Thanksgiving. Because she’s currently taking full-time classes while also teaching full-time, she wants to wait until next year, meaning this will be our last year of hosting Thanksgiving. I can’t wait to giveContinue reading “Passing the turkey leg…”

This upcoming weekend will be the last big push for the garden. Over the past two days, we harvested about 60 pounds of sweet potatoes and I made hot pepper jelly from the over-abundance of peppers in our garden. Now, we have the remainder of the beets to get canned into Harvard beets and someContinue reading “The garden’s end…”

Not something that always goes together, but today my mind is on the rising sun and the advent of pepper jelly into my canning arsenal. Both meet at the place where my soul gets happy. First, the sun. Around these parts, it’s mid-fall and in mid-fall, one cannot rule out the chance of snow. Once,Continue reading “Rising suns and pepper jelly”

On Sunday, we went for a “fancy walk.” I call it a fancy walk when we actually leave home to take a long walk. Mostly, we usually just head out our front door and can take a leisurely three-mile walk right around the neighborhood. There’s very little traffic, we pass only two houses and it’sContinue reading “Filling up my senses”

Each year, we take stock of our garden, how well it produced, what it would take to increase our yields, what produce we need to cut from the seed purchase list and what additional investments we need to make. Take, for example, this year’s garden. There were some critical insights gained. First, we can acknowledgeContinue reading “Garden investments = garden yield”

When the storms runs out of rain It’s been a tough few years on a lot of fronts. Don’t get me wrong – we are incredibly blessed and should really have little to complain about. Our families’ illnesses turned out just fine to date. So, while stressful at the time, things are now pretty good.Continue reading “When the storm runs out of rain…”