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January 26, 2023January 24, 2023Emily Graham

January 2023 The Never Ending Rain

So it’s been basically rainy/raining since the middle of December until the last week and a half of January. Although Christmas weekend it was 80 degrees and sunny. Not my favorite way to celebrate the holiday. I always want it somewhat cold for Christmas. January 5th we had a pretty large rainstorm that really started […]

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022Emily Graham

August Garden Update 2022

August has proved itself to be a challenge for my garden and I. It’s just too hot, and I keep thinking I need to give more water and my plants are just unhappy. Some of them are fine with the extra water and others just seem pissed to be honest. I have a cantaloupe plant […]

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021Emily Graham

Recent Project List

Christmas is more then on its way at this point and instead of doing my usual 25 days of BlogMas count down I decided I’m going to keep it light and share throughout the month the projects I’ll be working on and am in the process of working on for the holidays and updates around […]

November 25, 2021November 22, 2021Emily Graham

Happy Thanksgiving! 2021

This year we are trying something I never even thought of… Going to a restaurants Thanksgiving buffet!! I know, I know, something is weird about it. But in all honesty I knew it would happen at some point. This year, I was offered to cook thanksgiving for my husband and mother in law but with […]

March 18, 2021March 11, 2021Emily Graham

Home.

Back in December of 2020 there was a fire. I did my oh November post about the first one that came through in October but I didn’t get into the details of this fire because I was really just flying through the season with blogmas and all of the other things going on. So now […]

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020Emily Graham

Pulling Potatoes

Lessons learned people. I didn’t know what I was doing fully and I am not much of a studier. But I always welcome tips and help when it’s offered, just never been one to seek it out 🤷🏻‍♀️ The potatoes started off great. They got big and tall with lots of them growing buds and […]