Mother Earth News Garden Planner

Mother Earth Magazine Garden Planner I’ve just started reading the recent issue of Mother Earth News and pleased to try out and explore the new Garden Planner.  The first step is to set up a quick account, decide if you want email reminders that include planting tips, hints and a reminder to actually plant at […]

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Hawaii Trip Waimea Canyon Tour

Hawaii Trip Waimea Canyon Tour This is the second part of a two-part series on our trip up Waimea Canyon  Hawaii Trip Canyon Tour part one. It was hard to tear ourselves away from the Waimea Canyon and views at Koke’e State Park overlook for the drive home. We stopped to the Koke’e State Park

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Hawaii Trip Waimea Canyon Tour

Hawaii Trip Waimea Canyon Tour We left the NaPali coastline beach it was truly a magnificent place. As we drove away, we knew our future would bring us back as we needed to spend time on this beautiful beach, basking in all its beauty.  Originally, we planned a guided tour up the Waimea Canyon but

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Self Motivation and Overcoming my Inner Fears

Self Motivation and Overcoming my Inner Fears So many people are running 5k races and then moving on to marathons, I would love to take that first step but feel so intimidated.  I know that I can do it but I am allowing my inner scary cat voice too much control.  Last night I watched

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Polpette homemade meatballs

Homemade meatballs This recipe for meatballs comes from a 1960’s grange cookbook and was titled Polpettes. I have used many many times and is always a huge favorite. It’s posted in it’s original form from this well used cookbook from the Italian Woman’s Club, which was located in Springfield Mass. The recipe is very simple

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Beef Roast with Root Vegetables

Beef Roast with Root Vegetables Updated 2020 Cook this root veggies and beef roast in the beginning on Sunday and you’ll have left overs for a few creative meals during the week.  Be sure to add additional root veggies to make a blended soup. This recipe transfers to the Instant Pot by reducing the cooking

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Nutrition, Fitness, Fuzzy Math and keeping balance

Nutrition, Fitness, Fuzzy Math and keeping a balanced budget What is it about nutrition that can make a person start mentally negotiating with themselves?  How often have we all heard skewed logic discussing the math of exercise and nutrition like this: “I exercised today, I’ll reward my hard work by having an ice cream when

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