food, kind-environment food … The Dinner Company The Dinner Company pictured below is where we prepare our dinner meals each month. I was supposed to join my friend in a scrapbooking challenge where we had to chose something we do routinely or do often and then do a scrapbook page about…
food, recipes, kind-environment food … Trail Mix Recipe We love to be able to take food on our travels and recently, we wanted to add a trail mix but not just out of a box, so I did some research. I found out what goes into a good trail mix, I modified…
food, life, kind-environment food … Clown Cake I tried something new this week – Sept 23rd – for the cake class. The cake consists of the same type of cake as last week, however, I made a chocolate icing rather than the white icing like last week. I wanted to decorate it more,…
food, life, kind-environment food … My 1st Decorated Cake Our 2nd cake class day was September 16th. So, here it is… the cake that I thought was going to be a disaster that actually worked out quite well… Our objectives were: (1) to make any type of cake we wanted, then (2) make…
food, friends, life, stores, kind-environment food … Cake Decorating Class Last week Carla, Meghan, and I went to our first class of The Wilton Method of Cake Decorating: Course 1 at Michael’s Craft Store. I was hesitant at first, not knowing how much I would have to spend and how much I would…
kind-environment Long Time, No Blog It has been almost a month since I wrote my last blog post. I knew I was busy this past month or two but I didn’t realize I was that busy – too busy to blog, that is just unthinkable. Well, I hope that…
life, kind-environment life … Where Did I Go Wrong? Or Did I? In high school, I focused on science and art and was heavily involved in a group called Students Against Violating the Environment (SAVE). We collected cardboard boxes, painted them to stand out, and put one in every room for students to recycle their paper.…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … P90X: Week 4 We are finally moving forward again in our P90X adventure. We didn’t take our stats like I thought we would at the end of our undecided Week 2 or 3. It was decided though that we just wanted to move along in the…
tech, kind-environment tech … Flickr Pics Fixed Now I finally got around to fixing all of my pictures. They all go to their corresponding pictures now. I can get back to uploading all of my before and after pictures of all of the rooms in our house that I have painted and…
kind-environment New Items for Sale Page Please visit my new Items for Sale page. I have a few things listed there now and hope to have more there soon along with links to items that are listed by me on Amazon and eBay. Please leave a comment on this post…
environment, green, kind-environment environment … Our New Electric Mower We finally did it! We bought an electric mower. Keep in mind, we did need a new mower. We are very aware of the fact that buying something “green” when you do not need to replace a product you already own does not pay…
tech, kind-environment tech … Flickr Pics Fixed We have figured out a fix for getting my pictures to work when they are on the same line. The problem is not with Flicker but with WordPress’ text editor. Why this didn’t show up when I was using WordPress’ “Add an Image”…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … Back on P90X The colds are gone and muscles are repaired, so on with the show. Last night we started back on the P90X program. Before we started, we took our measurements (the same ones we have tracked from Day 0 and Day 14). In most cases,…
social, tech, kind-environment social … Flickr Pics If you have clicked on any of my pictures on my blog recently, you probably noticed that half the time you don’t get the picture you thought you would. I switched to Flicker for my images and the editing is a little buggy.…
food, kind-environment food … Dinner Company Visit Today we prepared our meals for a month at The Dinner Company. We were the only ones there other than one of the owners. It really is nice when there are not a lot of people to compete with for food stations, however, it…
environment, goGreen, kind-environment environment … Saving Electricity My husband was looking up the wattage of common items around the home and stumbled upon this site Saving Electricity. Some of the information seems a little outdated, but there are signs of current information being added and some of the information is probably…
environment, goGreen, health, organic, kind-environment environment … Can one person make a difference? For the past week, I have had a one line phrase repeating in my head whenever I get into my routine duties like washing dishes, laundry, and cleaning the cat box: “Can one person make a difference?” It all started with a conversation I…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … P90X: Thoughts on another off week Matt is showing signs of progress on his healing from the muscle strain. We don’t want to chance it and have him re-injured, so we are taking another week off. This week, I am hoping I can do one of the exercises on…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … P90X: Thoughts on Week 3 This week was a little rough. We think my husband strained a muscle during one of the exercises, so by Thursday, Yoga was a no-go. We did the muscle workout on Friday. Saturday we had a yard sale for about 6 hours which left…
environment, goGreen, outdoors, kind-environment environment … The Neuton My husband’s, step mother’s mom just bought a new electric lawnmower and absolutely loves it. It is so quiet that she says, “the only thing you hear from it are the blades spinning”. Now that is what a lawnmower should be like…
food, stores, kind-environment food … Dinners Made Easy There is a company in Salisbury, MD where in about 2 hours you can prepare meals. Once prepared all you need to do is take the meals home, put them in the freezer, thaw when needed, cook, and dinner is done. It is a…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … P90X: Day 14 Results. That is one of the biggest motivational points of exercise. In my experience with exercise, results usually take a little while. Well, today on day 14, I saw them in the form of numbers. Here are the details: Chest: lost 1.5 inches…
social, kind-environment social … Facebook I joined my first social site today – Facebook. I don’t want it to take too much of my time. I just want to be able to stay in contact with distant friends – we will see how this goes.…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … P90X: Thoughts on Week 2 I was wondering how it was all going to work with having to eat 600 more calories than I normally do during this fitness program, but I have only gained a pound and I bet it is muscle. I get to check my body…