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Kick the Tick
Just in time for summer, I found a recipe for repelling ticks and fleas for pets and people. Here in Maine, ticks are a big deal. Every year people get lyme disease from catching ticks while spending time in the great outdoors. Thanks to my friend, Darcy, for putting a spray bottle of this recipe […]
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Health
The Pet Zapper
The family that zaps together stays healthy together. And that includes our dear dog, Cosmo. We all know how many parasites our pets can bring into the home. Taking care of the littlest ones in our family is the secret to keeping everyone healthy in the household. One way to zap our furry family members […]
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Crafts
Cosplay Ears
We made a movie! My husband, daughter and I have been making a short movie series since summer last year. My daughter calls it Time Brats. It’s a sci-fi fantasy musical, and she invites her cousins, classmates, and in this latest one, the 4th episode, her 2nd grade teacher, to be part of it. It’s […]
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Food
Garden Update
My Shade Garden is coming along nicely. Most of it, at least. I planted early spring plants such as peas, sugar snap peas, broccoli, lettuce, radishes and beets on February 16 and 17. Remember those Sugar Snap Peas I got from Botanical Interests that I planted a while back? Here they are now! Aren’t they […]
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Family
The Adventures of Cosmo
Look at my sweet little dog whispering secrets to my daughter. Cosmo is the best dog ever. Very mellow around kids, lets my daughter dress him up, follows basic commands like sit, stay, drop it, does a lot of fun tricks like roll over, high-five, jump through hoop, the works! But. Cosmo is a rat […]
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Crafts
How to Make an Evergreen Wreath the Hard Way
Our Christmas tree is up! With the move we were a little worried we wouldn’t get our Christmas tree up in time, but we made it. We had to cut off the lowest branches to make our tree fit our stand, so I had a lot of extra branches to make a wreath with. Only […]
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Crafts
Cosmo’s Wool Sweater
I finally finished Cosmo’s Wool Sweater!!! It took me about a month from when I cast on to when I bound off. I would have been done sooner had I not taken a few days off from the project. Now here’s the fun part. Pictures!!! Share the goodness.FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pinterestemail
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