Giveaway Hop: “This Old House” Subscription CLOSED

**This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to our winner, Jackie V!** Welcome to the Make It A Home Blog Hop & Treasure Hunt hosted by Anitra from The MamaZone. We hope you’re ready to win some great prizes and cash to help you make your house a home! This giveaway hop is a little different than [...]

Easy on the Budget Decorating Tips

I love looking at decorating magazines and trying to picture ways I can use some of the techniques in our home…but on a budget. One big bonus of having a home that’s still a work in progress is that we’re free to try different things and never worry about “messing up” the decor. Through the [...]

Country Living & Internet Connections

As professional bloggers, we are online ALL the time. We’re working on our sites, we’re researching new articles, we’re answering email. We need a connection we can depend on, especially for the Twitter parties we’ve been co-hosting lately. Well, that reliable connection is easier said than done when you live in the country.for us, there [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Milk Thistle

Due to their spiny leaves, many people don’t like the milk thistle but I think they’re just lovely. We mow our front yard so we can keep an eye out for snakes but we let the thistles grow along the fenceline. They’re in bloom now and just beautiful!

Pears!

This weekend meant tree trimming here at home. Although it’s definitely not the traditional time for tree trimming, this was a necessary event…as we were finally able to see which trees in our small pear orchard just were no longer with us… Fortunately in most cases, it was just a matter of removing a limb [...]

Giveaway: “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” Cookbook! CLOSED

**This giveaway is closed. Out of 1407 entries, our winner is Ellen W. Congratulations!** Welcome to the Mom ME Time Giveaway Event coordinated by The Maven of Social Media, Formula Mom, and Tales From the Nursery! This event will take place from 12:01am EST on April 22nd through 11:59pm EST on April 28th. Whether you’re [...]

Earth Day Birthday Giveaway Hop: 3M Filtrete Water Pitcher CLOSED

**This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to Rick W., winner out of 1343 entries!** Can you believe this is the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day?  The Kids are Grown, Now What?, Planet Weidknecht and Going Crazy, Wanna Go? are bringing you this giveaway hop. Each participating blogger is holding a giveaway for an earth friendly product [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Verbena

The wildflowers are few and far between this spring, thanks to last summer’s record drought, but these verbena came up just in front of the house!

Watch for the Housewarming Dyson Giveaway Event

Watch for a Dyson DC23 giveaway from June 1-15! The Housewarming Dyson Giveaway Event will offer a Dyson DC23 TurbineHead Vacuum (retail value $399) as the prize and will be open to entries worldwide.  (Note – if the winner is outside of the US, the winner will be responsible for any duties, taxes, etc. that [...]

Adding a Flagstone Walk

In yesterday’s post, we told you about our trip to select the flagstones for our new walkway…and today it’s time to see the work it took to reach the finished project! Since we already had a walk of gravel, the first (and probably the biggest) job was to remove the existing gravel. Once that was [...]

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