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Summer Staple : Chopped Salad with Feta, Lime, Mint, and Sunflower Seeds

I love salad in some form all year round. In fall and winter we eat a lot of lettuce/onion/fruit/cheese/nut combos. In spring, I’m always tossing tender garden greens with various herby dressing concoctions. Now that the spring lettuce is bolting in the heat, I turn to bulky lettuce-free mixtures of whatever is wonderful in the […]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: Lancaster County Day Trip Edition

My brother and his family and one of my aunts and uncles accompanied us to Lancaster County a few days ago. We went to Roots Auction, ate far too much at Shady Maple restaurant, and drove around the countryside for awhile. Some of us made our way to Hannah’s Quilts, at the farm of our […]

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For the Record: Why is Patience Never Clearance-Priced?

This is more for me than you, so feel free to move on if your time is more valuable than what’s written here.I have managed to get tendonitis in my “good” shoulder over the last week or so, and at first I just felt like it was so unfair, so too-much-to-be-asked-to-cope-with on top of the […]

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Quick! Before It Rains…

Almost all the garden work I do is done in frantic bursts. I rush outside and sprinkle some lettuce seeds in a square section of one of our raised beds. I run out and weed the herbs for fifteen minutes. I quickly mix up some rose spray and douse the bushes before I take a […]

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Not Wrapped Too Tight

So, my siblings, our spouses, and I are throwing a fiftieth anniversary party for our parents at the end of June. We are excited to do this. We are privileged to do this. We are also a little nuts to do this in the way we are doing it, but that’s another blog post.The menu […]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head edition

Pretty I always think pansies are such cheerful flowers. These and their matching partners flank our front door. Happy It makes me happy to have gotten these perennials yesterday. They are destined to live on the “back” side of the brick wall my dad built last fall along the side of our property. Funny This […]

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Basket Case

 One of our laundry baskets broke all the way, and most of the rest are cracking and going fast. I’m fussy about laundry baskets, not to say picky and perhaps even unreasonable. I can’t stand broken plastic, I want them to nest, and I want them to work very, very well. I know. You didn’t […]

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Unsolicited Advice: “What’s for Dinner?”

This one of those my-life-is-nearly-always-happier-and-certainly-always-more-serene-if-I-obey-this-rule things. It is very simple. It makes a big difference. Truly. Really. Want to know? It’s called The Ten O’Clock Rule. I’ll wait while you get paper and pencil to make notes. Oh, don’t worry about it — you don’t actually need any because you will never forget this life-changing […]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: In the Garden

Pretty Forget-me-nots have self-seeded themselves for several years in this little bed on the north side of our house. They are surely some of the most cheerful flowers on God’s good earth. Happy I am so happy to see this shrub thriving and showing off its fancy new spring leaf-duds. Or maybe its new hairstyle. […]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: Bullet Edition

Pretty To walk by the tulips from the garden piled into a pitcher To watch daffodils left in the yard tossing their bonnets about in the wind To observe the progress of the paper garland The Daughter has been working on, ostensibly for an upcoming slumber party, but I suspect mostly because it is such […]

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