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Lentil and Kale Soup

January 9, 2022

I love a good soup. There is nothing like enjoying a cup or bowl of soup on a cold wintry night. This lentil and kale soup is perfect after a day outside in the snow or coming in after shoveling the driveway. It is hearty, filling and has a lovely combination of spices that seem…

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Main Dishes Recipes Soups

Sausage and Bowtie Pasta Soup

December 1, 2020

As cooler weather rushes in here on Cape Cod, I like to call it soup weather. The bigger soup pots soon find they’re placed within closer reach and it seems that we have soup a few times per week. This week, I made a sausage and bowtie pasta soup. It was delicious so I thought…

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Gardening Hydrangeas Plants

Summer Hydrangea Pruning for Double Blooms Next Year

October 14, 2020

In late summer when the hydrangea blooms have begun to fade and dry, comes a perfect time to do a little shaping of your macrophyllas that can also pay you back double for your work in blossoms. A simple and delicate hydrangea pruning for double blooms is one way to encourage more flowers from what…

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Chickens DIY Projects Gardening with Chickens Seasonal Care

Fall Fun for Backyard Chickens

October 4, 2019

Poor chickens, sometimes fall doesn’t seem like much fun for our flocks or us. The amount of daylight begins to decrease and along with that, the annual molting begins. Eggs supply dwindles and even our most social of chickens would prefer to not be handled as much. But, it doesn’t mean that fall can’t be…

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Desserts Eggs Recipes

Bake It: Tilly’s Tornado Cake

February 26, 2019

One of my favorite things about social media is learning about new recipes. A couple of months ago, a recipe for something called a Tornado Cake, came across my feed. As I researched it further, I discovered that there are so many different versions and edits to this recipe. As I read over the recipes,…

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Crafts Fall Gardening Plants Projects Seasons

Fall Crafting: Make a Coastal Hydrangea Wreath

October 16, 2017

I love living by the sea and keeping gardens, but living in New England I find my warm days drifting away. One of my favorite things to do on crisp fall days is to collect beautiful inspirational things from the gardens and make wreaths, like this acorn one. This past spring, we planted almost thirty…

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Crafts Halloween Holiday

Make It: DIY Spiderweb Doormat

October 1, 2014

Happy first day of October! It finally is beginning to feel like fall around here. The weather is starting to inspire me for my weekly HGTV projects. This week, I’m thinking about crisp leaves, apple picking, fall gardening, pumpkins and trick-or-treating. I’m also thinking about plastic spider rings. My son brought one home from school…

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Eggs Main Dishes Recipes

Chimichurri Quiche with Fresh Garden Herbs

August 1, 2014

I love to make fresh chimichurri sauce with herbs from the garden. When I lived in Los Angeles, I first discovered chimichurri at a sweet restaurant my college roommates and I used to frequent in Brentwood. We’d put it on everything- bread, chicken, and steak. We could not get enough.Read more

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Beekeeping DIY Hive Maintainance

Winterizing the Bees

November 15, 2013

Last week, I caught the bees outside on a warmer fall day. They were sipping water from the decorative cabbages on the front porch. I sat and watched them. Each dipped their proboscis into the water. They seemed to enjoy the warmth of the sun. Their movements were sluggish. These were not summer bees but…

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Chickens Health Issues

Reasons for Missing Feathers on Backyard Chickens

December 28, 2012

Feather loss and missing feathers happens within every flock at one point or another. Suddenly, one day you happen to notice that one or more of your chickens are missing some feathers. Missing feathers should always cause you to do a bit of detective work. There are reasons for missing feathers. Some reasons are obvious,…

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Lentil and Kale Soup

Sausage and Bowtie Pasta Soup

Summer Hydrangea Pruning for Double Blooms Next Year

Fall Fun for Backyard Chickens

Bake It: Tilly’s Tornado Cake

Fall Crafting: Make a Coastal Hydrangea Wreath

Make It: DIY Spiderweb Doormat

Chimichurri Quiche with Fresh Garden Herbs

Winterizing the Bees

Reasons for Missing Feathers on Backyard Chickens

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