Vanilla, Lilacs, Voilets & Dandilions

Yesterday I posted a few recipes for using vanilla beans. In my quest to cut back our food budget. These are simple recipes and for some reason are stored some where in the back of my mind. Last night I got to thinking about them and wondered if I had forgotten something. I pulled out [...]

Return To The Basics-Our Budget

Putting to use the old time recipes and tips my grandmother used. That’s the answer and the question is:
What do you do when your expenses go up and your income goes down. Not a unique situation for may these days. This is what has happened to our family recently with the passing of our old [...]

Some times it isn’t easy…

…..and I’m going to H*LL!
I have this neighbor who moved up from CT about 4 years ago, to get away from the city and live in the country. They bought this lovely old farm house and the first thing they did was pave the driveway and put up BIG iron gates with an intercom to [...]

More about me

Way back when I was 16 or so, my father gave me my first jackknife. He told me to keep it in my pocket because I never knew when I would need it. I think he was sad to never have had a son to teach about pocket knives. He gave my sisters one too. I don’t think [...]