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The Perfect Mother’s Day Gift

What is your idea of the perfect Mother’s Day gift? Which of these would you love to receive?

a lazy morning in bed with a cup of tea and a book
a handmade item with a sweet message from a child
a large bouquet of store-bought flowers
a bouquet of flowers hand-picked and brought to you by hand
some plants [...]

Garden Corner 05/07/09

This week I’ve been thinking about a picture perfect garden. You know those ones you see in magazines and gardening books? Well, my Kansas garden corner certainly doesn’t look like that! But, you know what, I’m going to guess that yours probably doesn’t either. In fact I’m pretty sure that about 99% of gardens don’t [...]

Beans Are Better Than Steak!

It was Saturday night and I was in the kitchen cooking. “Can’t we have beans for dinner. Beans are better than steak!” It’s not quite the words I expected to hear as I tossed a couple of KC Strip Steaks under the broiler. It was even more surprising to me that these words were coming [...]

Garden Corner 04/30/09

It seems like the April days are flying past! My Kansas garden corner is intensely green. A few days back I looked out the window and practically shouted out, “Wow! When did the leaves come out on the trees?” I could swear that just a few hours earlier there had been no sign of leaves [...]

Are There Any Mountains in Kansas?

Hiking just happens to be my all-time favorite eco-friendly hobby. So, it’s just plain bad luck, and bad planning, that I ended up living in Kansas. I could drive 10 hours to Colorado for mountains and a good hike, but somehow I don’t consider that very planet friendly. There aren’t any mountains in Kansas after [...]