Our garden exploits in Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle were an amazing botanical adventure. If you love gardens and gardening and can incorporate one or more of these sites in your itinerary, you won’t be disappointed!
Quick & Delicious Homemade Tomatillo Salsa Verde
Homemade tomatillo sauce has become a pantry staple, ready whenever I crave delicious sour cream chicken enchiladas!
Flo and Les: The Meet-Cute
You’ve seen the meet-cute in romance novels and movies. My grandparents are that story.
Make This Handmade Holiday Gift with the Kids
A hand-stenciled cookie jar, dozens of homemade cookies, and a handmade card make one thoughtful and delicious gift for the whole family.
10 Favorite Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes
After the big feast, then what? You can always count me in for a turkey dinner rerun with all the trimmings, several turkey & ham sandwich lunches, and a pot of turkey noodle soup. Beyond that, I get pretty “holidayed out” in a couple of days. There so many delicious leftovers I can’t bear to …
Remembering Our Veterans & Sharing Their Stories
Leading up to Veterans Day, our Mercer Island WA grandsons are learning family stories and making veteran “leaves” for their school’s Veterans Day Tree.
Our Wyoming Path toward Yellowstone
After an amazing day visiting the Badlands and the Black Hills on our national parks bucket list trip, we set out on a 500 mile drive toward Yellowstone National Park. There were wonderful sights along the way that we couldn’t fit into our adventure – like Little Bighorn Battlefield – but we loved driving the …
Mix Up some Cowboy Coffee Rub for End of Summer Grilling
Our recent trip to Jackson WY inspired me to make more Cowboy Coffee Rub!
Visiting the Beautiful World of Gene Stratton-Porter
I think my love of flowers, birds, butterflies, and moths began when I read Gene Stratton-Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost.
It’s Time to Dry Your Herbs – in the Microwave!
I will always choose fresh herbs when available, but come fall and winter soup season, it’s nice to have a supply of your own dried herbs in the pantry.