The title of this post probably makes me sound paranoid, but there really are people picking through my garbage every Monday night. Honest. I can't stand it! It's worse on recycling days which is every two weeks. I'll be outside with the dog and...

Wordless Wednesday This rose is called Compte de Chambord. It has a long history and I believe it was one of the rose species that was commonly used to make rose perfume due to it's lovely rose scent. I like the effect I managed to get in this...

When I was a kid my parents would always take two or more weeks off in the summer and we'd go on road trip vacations. I got to see a lot of Canada and much of the Us in this manner. Of course as a kid I didn't really like being stuck in [...]

My dog has some funny quirks. It seems that she gets more and more of them each week! Her latest thing is that she doesn't like her crate door closed ... this is when she's not in it. We'll let her out in the morning and she'll do things with us or...

OMG I just realized that I've been sitting working on that new store and a couple of other projects for hours and hours! Holy Smokes ... if I did that every day I'd have to start taking some of those special fat burners to burn away the calories...