National Day of Service and Remembrance Sept. 11th

The 10th Anniversary of September 11th is coming up and there is a nationwide movement to remember this tragedy with a day of service. The National Park Service has plenty of opportunities to participate in this day of service, no matter where you live in the US. We have visited many, many National Parks and…

The Summer Rehab Project – Part 2

One of my summer projects was to recover the chair cushions for our outdoor furniture with this beautiful fabric I found earlier this Spring. It took me awhile to get to it – because I wanted to finish the kids shorts (that I started last summer) and a few other projects that had been hanging…

Dream Dinners Act 2, 3, and 4

We have worked our way through a few more of the Dream Dinner meals from the July menu – mostly when I have no brilliant ideas for dinner and I pull one of those out thinking – “Oh, this will be easy, I don’t have to think about dinner.” Which happens to be how it…

The Summer Rehab Project

I saw these chairs that my friend Germaine had sitting out by her garage to get rid of on big trash day. I’d drive by on a fairly regular basis and wonder if she was going to use them or get rid of them. We had moved back into our remodeled house and had no…