Perfume perspective.

At the place where I work for a living, there are female prisoners that perform the housekeeping duties early in the mornings. We are told that we are not to make friends with them. Do not touch them. Do not attempt to interact with them outside their duties in any way. They may call . . . → Read More: Perfume perspective.

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Raised garden bed – lasagna gardening

The Project

I decided to replace my infamous bucket garden with a raised garden bed using the basic concept of lasagna gardening.

I’d been searching for 8 in x 8 in x 16 in concrete blocks that cost less than what Lowes or Home Depot would charge for several weeks. But Kirk finally confessed . . . → Read More: Raised garden bed – lasagna gardening

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New Ferret Cage

We purchased this cage via Amazon.com. Marshall Ferret Cage

The ferrets adapted to it very quickly. We bought an additional ramp for them to be able to climb in and out of the cage, but they really didn’t like it. Cage ramp FYI, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the ramp, just our ferrets . . . → Read More: New Ferret Cage

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Meet the Ferrets

We adopted 2 ferrets last Friday!

Both Kirk and I have had ferrets in our lives in the past.

When I was a teenager, my sister got Skeeter as a present form her boyfriend. She and I shared a room at the time, and we built a cage for Skeeter ourselves. We had . . . → Read More: Meet the Ferrets

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Different in the South – Part 2

Skin

There is a lot more skin in the south than there is in Alaska. No, I’m not saying the South is fat (but maybe it is? http://calorielab.com/news/2010/06/28/fattest-states-2010/ ). It’s just that in the south there are a lot fewer months of the year where you need to be covered for warmth.

I . . . → Read More: Different in the South – Part 2

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Cayenne Pepper Sauce

Yesterday I harvested the last of my cayenne peppers from my incredible bucket garden. I have dried most of my cayennes this year, so I decided to try making a hot sauce with the rest of them. I looked up several different recipes and decided ona mix nd match of various ones to take . . . → Read More: Cayenne Pepper Sauce

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Favorite quote from a novel?

I got the idea for this post from http://www.practiceofmadness.com/ a post titled “What is your favourite quote from a novel of all time?” Here

My favorite quotes are so varied that I thought I’d restrict myself to favorite opening line of a book. There are a lot of very famous opening lines out there, . . . → Read More: Favorite quote from a novel?

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Forty

I turned forty this week. My feelings on the matter are somewhere along the lines of “Wow, would you look at that!?”

As a child, 40 was an immense age, how could I ever live that long? What would I do with all that time? As a depressed and overly sensitive teenager I was . . . → Read More: Forty

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Window Film

Today Kirk and I applied Gila Window Film to one of our south facing windows.

Boy what a difference it made! We have a lot of multi-paned windows in our new house and thought that putting up insulating window film on each little section would be an extremely painful project. Not so! This stuff . . . → Read More: Window Film

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Handmade Especially for you

I found this site through a comment on www.joann.com

Handmade Especially For You home page

Handmade Especially For You is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that makes and distributes comfort scarves to shelters for abused women. We tie each scarf with a ribbon and include a note signed by the comfort scarf maker. Often . . . → Read More: Handmade Especially for you

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