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Wakeup Call
Something happened to me the other weekend. I took a 3-day culinary basics workshop that has ignited change. For months, I’ve been day dreaming about cooking on a professional level. I do enough of it in my personal life to know I like it and that others like it too. I blog about it, read about it and watch shows about it. Cooking has become my thing. Or maybe it’s been my thing all along but I was too distracted by life to realize it until now. Cooking had become so much a part of the routine that I wasn’t even conscious of the joy, the peace, the excitement it…
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Phase I of Backyard Oasis is Complete
I finished excavating the land that will soon hold my stone patio. I’ll be heading to Lowe’s within the next week to collect the necessary pavers and stuff. I’m so proud and relieved. It was some authentic hard labor that took me through a wide range of emotions. There were good times, like when I found a wheelbarrow for 20 bucks, and when my daughter told me how happy she was making mud brownies. Then there were the bad times when my hand was so sore from gripping that shovel it hurt to use my mouse, hold my cell phone or use them at all really. I had to put…
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Operation Backyard Oasis is a go
When we were house hunting, I insisted we buy a house with a yard, preferably a deck. What I got was a huge yard with a privacy fence around it, no extras. I like to entertain and I think it’s just cool to eat, sit, drink and BE outside. However, when there is nothing but grass outside, the BEING becomes less appealing. As a result, we’ve been living in a house with a massive yard for 4 years now and I’m almost ashamed to say, we just don’t make any use of it. Our yard gets the most attention from our lawn guy/landscaper/handiman who cuts it every other week or…
