We spend the cold months shut in our home, fire blazing, puffy coat layering, soup eating. It always feels like a miracle when we can leave the sliding glass door open all day, the scent …
One of my most frequently asked questions is about our use of essential oils. I am learning as I go here (and obviously not a medical professional) but thought I'd share a bit about our …
So enough of you have asked that here I am doing a wee canning tutorial. And wow, it took a few weeks get it up...canning is a lot of work but then documenting the process …
I am officially combining my writing efforts here on dig. The bug blog felt right until recently when I began to feel that the things I write about, ramblings about my life, can't be separated …
In between high heels and lipstick, I have always held a whole lot of hippie close to my heart. I tried to carry full-on hippie style in high school but it just didn't pan out …
Oh my oh my. We have baseboard. We bought our house five years ago after, for ten years, it was a quintessential college boy party bach pad. The yard was compact dirt and every wall carried …
The run is done! Thanks to my fabulous man. Andy installed this brilliant sliding door and a bomb-proof run that can be picked up and moved around the yard, tractor style. Olive is obsessed with …
So, it isn't totally finished but my backyard chicken coop is a sight to behold. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do (after I grab my cup of thick coffee …
Yesterday involved a should-have-been-six-hour 30 mph drive through a blizzard after a heavy few days with Andy's grandma at St. V's hospital in Billings. Dolly Mae is doing a bit better. We got home …
We have been in our casa for four years and I am on my third set of living room curtains and, like a bad relationship, I want out but I keep trying to make it …
My mind has been whirling about the kid I am about to have. She arrives any day now. People keep saying to enjoy these days because there won't be any more like this. That is …
We bought our house four years ago and the whole interior shebang was painted a pukey light grayish white. When you entered the temperature plummeted a good seven degrees just because of this color. I …
