Archive for the 'Home Care' Category

21 Jun

Though my thoughts are outside more than inside during days like today when the sun was shining and everything that isn’t blooming yet is just about to, there are those rainy days when I do get to look around inside and see what needs to be improved. In fact, a rainy day can make a [...]

19 Apr

Isn’t this a charming country picture of flowers in a sink? The credit goes to countryliving.com for this beautiful picture, what a creative idea for an old sink if you have purchased an old country home and are replacing the sink. I have some plants in an old porcelain wash tub as a planter on [...]

27 Aug

The gardens are getting that “unkempt” look, at least here they are, because at the end of the season I let my herbs bolt and things generally go a bit wild…the bees are delighted because the herbs that are usually cut back are full of flowers.  The slugs are winning the battle for my hosta…the [...]

03 Apr

In the post before this one, I shared a bit about little ants finding their way into our home, the battle continues with those little critters, we have used a baster from our kitchen to put some Diatomaceous Earth into the cracks and crevices that they seem to be coming into, and today I haven’t [...]

01 Mar

Here I sit waiting for the first flakes to drop as we wait for March to come in like a lion here in Northern NJ. With a winter like this, one can only continue to dream about what it will be like to begin digging in the soil. I remember when I was a young [...]