Part 6 – 2021 Garden: “Waiting, Waiting…Finally!”

Tomato plant flowering Total experiment this year! I’m not good with unknown variables. These starts began as seeds. Once the seed took, were transplanted a month ago as teeny tiny plants into our garden. I watched them like a hawk as though that would help them grow! Over the last month, we have had rain, [...]

Modified Chicken Lettuce Wraps

I have a recipe for chicken lettuce wraps prepared with a wok. I have made it several times. My daughter told me she prepared her chicken lettuce wraps mixture in her crock pot. That intrigued me. Crock Pot Chicken Lettuce Wraps Today, I modified my recipe and made my crock pot version of chicken lettuce [...]

Part 5 – 2021 Garden: “One Month In…”

It’s been one month since we put in our garden Newly planted garden - mid May 2021 It’s been one month. Originally, I was concerned about how small our starts were. Every morning I would check out our garden. As though my looking at the plants would make them grow! One Month Old Garden - [...]

Clicking Through Life…Word of the Day

Click Did you ever notice how many ways we click through things? The click of a pen, emails, text messages, placing an online order & clicking off the “To Do” list. Pen Clicking Clicking How about during the pandemic, the employee clicking how many customers had entered the store. Click click click Living life…one click [...]

Adventure…Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Adventure I come from a family of seven brothers and sisters. Growing up my mother was very “creative” about the adventures we had. We could be in the backyard doing yard work but suddenly we were explorers looking for hidden treasure. We might of had a picnic in our local park [...]

Finding Motivation…Word of the Day!

Word of the Day: Ordinary Writing requires Inspiration! Sometimes there is none to be found. I am trying something new, this Word of the Day to help motivate myself with writing more regularly. Ordinary is average, mediocre, just getting by, a faceless person in the crowd. No one aspires to be “Ordinary”, its not goal [...]