Freezing zucchini

Freezing zucchini

Sep 14, 2019 | Homestead & Garden, Stable Food (recipes)

For today’s Saturday food post, I wanted to talk about freezing zucchini. I’ve been blessed to be able to harvest a couple of zucchinis about the size of a toddler’s baseball bat. They’re fat! I love zucchini bread, but can’t eat that...
Bugs By Mail

Bugs By Mail

Sep 12, 2019 | bearded dragons (Lizard Tuesdays)

I work across the parking lot from a pet store, so obtaining superworms for my two bearded dragons isn’t a big deal. It’s $4.50 for 50 of them, and with greens and supplementing with my dubia colony (that I totally need to get back to caring for), I can...

Review: Book Brush (Writing Advice)

Sep 9, 2019 | writing

My latest writing advice blog post over at my Patreon just went public, so I’m inviting you to hop on over and see it. Here’s a snippet: On social media nothing catches a reader’s attention more than a cover, unless it’s a snazzy promotion...
Finding Horse Treasures From The Past (Sunday Horses)

Finding Horse Treasures From The Past (Sunday Horses)

Sep 8, 2019 | horse stuff

I finished going through my mom’s belongings, the boxes in the storage shed, last weekend. And among the knickknacks and her nurse collection were old pictures. Pictures that brought me back to my horse crazy childhood, and yes, brought tears to my eyes. Meet...
A Happy Update On The Queen

A Happy Update On The Queen

Sep 6, 2019 | Cat Tales (Thursday)

In one month and thirteen days it’ll have been a year since mom died. Honestly, I didn’t expect her cat, my sister, the Queen to live that long. After all, she’d battled bobcat fever in 2017, then faced high blood pressure, and had been on medicine...

What is Imposter Syndrome? (Writing Advice)

Sep 5, 2019 | writing

My latest writing advice blog post over at my Patreon just went public, so I’m inviting you to hop on over and see it. Here’s a snippet: In a world where people are looking for tricks or shortcuts, it makes sense that people don’t believe they...
Dreaming of a Staycation #IWSG

Dreaming of a Staycation #IWSG

Sep 4, 2019 | Homestead & Garden, writing

It’s a question often asked on author interviews: if you could write anywhere in the world, where would you be right now?For me the answer is simple. I’d be in my “office cabin”, my “she shed” as it were, with the window looking out...
Itty Bitty Chickie Update

Itty Bitty Chickie Update

Sep 3, 2019 | birds & poultry

A while ago I posted a blog about the “itty bitty chickie” eggs. Well, mid August, they hatched! I ended up getting six chicks, which out of 14 hatching eggs that were shipped, and given how small they were, isn’t a bad result at all. Sadly, the...
Finding Horse Treasures From The Past (Sunday Horses)

Mental Health & Horses (Sunday Horses)

Sep 1, 2019 | horse stuff

I’ve had Fortune, my senior mare, since December 1999. That’s important because January 2000 was when my first marriage ended, so to say that she’s been with me through most of my major adult traumas would not be an inaccurate statement. She was...
Freezing zucchini

First Watermelon Harvest (Saturday Food)

Aug 31, 2019 | Stable Food (recipes)

I finished up my garden rather late this spring, but one of the things I did purchase at the feed store was two watermelon plants. I thought I purchased two Black Diamond plants; however, once the fruits started appearing, it was obvious that I’d gotten two...