To put our toes in the ocean.  To twist our bare feet down into warm sand and let it get, all grainy, between our toes.  To go to sleep at night listening to the very soul of the natural world, the rhythm of the waves beneath the moon.

This is a picture of a vaction long past.  That’s […]

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There are new things over at Lynn’s Victorian Treasures.

Ride over and take a look!
Lynn

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  As I said, it was time to plant the mint.  So plant it I did.  It gave me the chance to recycle some newspapers.

I wrapped the newspaper, not too tightly but snugly, around a can.

I folded the ends up at the bottom, tied some string around and then pulled out the can.

I ended up with […]

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Mint roots very easily and I think this is ready to be planted in containers now.  More to come about this.

This is from some mint given to us by a cousin of my husband’s.  She lives up in Vilas, North Carolina.  It’s a beautiful moutain area.
Lynn

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You gotta have energy to lesson-plan!  That’s why I start my days with some sort of healthy drink. (Well, not really. I just like healthy drinks.)

I often run my juicer so that I can drink carrots, apples, oranges, and greens.  But lately Peggy at She Hath Done What She Could has introduced me to the Green […]

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I found some excellent children’s books today and they will go along wonderfully with some of the unit studies I am planning for Princess of the Universe.  (Well, the book Herbs: Gardens, Decorations and Recipes is for me.)   

I had to make a trip out of town today and while out I stopped by a Goodwill and also had the occasion to […]

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We have this old printer’s drawer mounted on the wall as you go up the stairs.  It is full of all sorts of little miniatures and transient pieces of nature.  Sometimes items will disappear for use in play elsewhere and then make their way back to the shadow box. 

I know decor-wise it’s dated perhaps to have […]

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Thoughts on Food…
Just a reminder that there’s a difference between good fat and bad fat, and that our bodies need some fat to help us with hormone production, among other things.

This was yummy and I have no guilt. 
A slice of sourdough olive bread, a spring-green salad with Bragg’s Ginger and Sesame Salad Dressing and […]

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An odd title, I know, but it’s what this weekend has been about. 

A Saturday Morning Yardsale
The weekend was good.  Even though I had to work on Saturday, I started out my early morning with a yard sale which was on the way to the local all-natural grocery store and farmer’s market.

There was a […]

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Someone posted on the Five In A Row message boards about it.  Victoria Magazine posted an online tribute to her.  A friend of mine e-mailed to let me know about it.  The Tudor family put their thoughts on their family website about it.   My mother and I talked on the phone about it.  The passing of […]

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