Gardening ~ Cooking ~ Frugality
Live from Zone 7b in New Jersey
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Thrifty Tuesday and a Room of My Own
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Eat, Write, Love
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Pale September…
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How a Tomato Is Not Like a Child
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Putting the Labor in Labor Day
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The Dirty Life
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I Think I'm Alone Now
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I Think I’m Alone Now
It’s 12:30 pm. I am sitting on my front porch with a cold glass of iced tea-lemonade and a magazine. The weather is gorgeous. All of my kids are off at the pool with the sitter until 4 pm. The quiet of Vermont has made me more aware of noises like construction off in the distance, cars…
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It's Time I Got Back
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It’s Time I Got Back
It’s almost September, summer is more or less over for me, and it’s time to get back to reality and stop living in vacationland. This means: Tracking the budget. I just went back and finished out July’s, and I was a little bit ahead, on top of the money that was automatically transferred to savings.…