Interested in playing a game? March will arrive like a Lion or a Lamb? You tell me....

That's what the weather in the mornings have been like for the past week. We did get to see the sun yesterday afternoon which was delighful! I took our beagle, Sam Parker on a extra long walk. I couldn't tell who was more excited to be out, him or me. It is great to finally see the grass again! I was in the car the other day and made that exact comment to my oldest son Noah and he looked at me as if I were crazy. He said, "Really mom, you're excited to see the grass?" And I said, "Yes, I am!" It… Continue

We live in a neighborhood, as many of you do, that have a lot of trees. We started raking, mowing and mulching leaves about a month or so ago. The good news is most of the trees have dropped their leaves. I am overwhelmed when out walking how many people have their leaves bagged and picked up. Those plastic bags are filling our landfills way too fast… Continue

Winter like weather has arrived. Pull out your gardening sheets and blankets because if there are any annuals you are trying to keep around they will need to be covered this weekend. The low temperatures are suppose to dive into the 30's for the next couple of mornings and it looks as if they may be forecasting a chance of snow flurries on Saturday. Yikes! I don't even like to talk about snow this early. It makes for a very long winter.

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Are the cicada's in your neighborhood getting any quieter? They are in ours do to the appetite of our Beagle, Sam Parker. He is crazy about eating cicadas. I know it sounds crazy but he will come into my office and give me that look, "Hey, I know you are busy and it is really not time for my walk but do you think we could go outside and look for some cicadas?" Seriously we may have to take Sam to cicadas anonymous....Pretty funny! He is especially fond of the ones right out of their shell. Eww..… Continue