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Garden Update: Defeated

Garden Update: Defeated I love spending time in the garden. I hate owning up to the fact that I’m failing miserably in the garden. I hate June in…

Holy Basil

This is my second season experimenting with growing medicinal herbs. Last year I planted *successfully* grew feverfew, valerian, white horehound, milk thistle and calendula. I’ve decided to add…

Midnight Walmart Junk Food Run

Because when your favorite teens finish swimming for the night and want junk food, you cater to their every need. And any chance to go to Walmart at…

Depression

While I don’t wish the ills of Depression on ANYONE, I wish people could understand what it really was like deep down inside… It’s not JUST being sad…

Homemade Soy Candles

Something to do during this endless winter…make homemade soy candles? Why not? Materials needed: Natural Soy Wax: 10 pound bag Natural Candle Wick, Large Mason Jars In true…

DEPRESSION SUCKS.

DEPRESSION SUCKS. I WISH PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THE DIFFERENCE between being sad over stuff and clinical depression. Dealing with both at the same time, sucks. Physically not being able…

Tubby Cat

Tubby Cat Lives Up To His Name. But only over the long Winter months where he doesn’t get to roam and hunt outdoors all the live long day….

The Snow is Cooperating with My Mood

Keep it coming! But why WHY does it have to be so darn cold? I’m pretty sure the Groundhog didn’t even come out of his hole today to…

Sasha Kitten Update

The pain medication Sasha Kitten was prescribed last month has really, really helped him get back to a happier normal place. Sasha seemed to have a pretty good…

Mushrooms and Bulb Planting

Mushrooms and Bulb Planting: It’s been a beautiful week, weather much warmer than usual which meant it was the PERFECT time to plant. Bulbs, bulbs, more bulbs and…mushroom…

All Things SINGLE DIGIT ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE

Day #3. Brrrrrrr. Brrrrrrr. Once we dislocated our friends not so four-wheel drive SUV from our ridiculously treacherous winter driveway…we headed back to the old haunt Gabriel’s Gate…

Turkeys

We just drove up our curvy, hilly driveway in the middle of the woods and saw a dozen turkeys just hanging out. As we approached half went to…

Beard

All Things Double Double (And I don’t mean Tim Horton’s) He Who Makes Me Smile is growing a beard. And after a few weeks of scraggly concern, it…

Basement Tavern

18th Century Tavern in our BASEMENT? HWMMS basically took over the bottom floor of our house…he made a workshop area for himself along with setting up the entertainment/movie…

Castle by Candlelight

Old Fort Niagara: Castle by Candlelight My favourite event at Old Fort Niagara! The French Castle dressed up in Holiday Finest. Merriment everywhere! (View photos of the event…

Snow, Blood and Tacos

Snow, Blood and Tacos. First of all—what a FABULOUS winter day in the city of Buffalo for the FLURRIOUS FESTIVAL!Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!…

I *heart* Carhartt!

For years and years and years I’ve wanted a Carhartt jacket. Mostly because of a sentimental attachment to my dad and childhood but also because HOLY WARM BATMAN!…

I Love a Rainy Night

*Hmmm, that hasn’t happened in a VERY LONG TIME. I wrote a post, published it and it disappeared! Grrrr.* Tis a cold rainy night, which in my world…

Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder

Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder My mood today: Fiesty. Fiesty? Understatement of the year. Don’t even get me started…As I left the office at lunch time I said “I’m…

Apartment Sweet Apartment

Day #2! I wake up exhausted. Somehow make it to work for a few hours. Finish up cleaning the old place, drop off the keys and go home…

St. Patrick’s Day

No, no green beer. Guinness please.  And double Jamesons for the others. Not me. Had some corned beef and salt potatoes at Ulrich’s Tavern. And watched The LeftOvers….

Powder Keg Festival

Powder Keg Festival SNOW! BEER! FESTIVUS! RON HAWKINS! FRIENDS! Hell yes! Tis the Powder Keg Festival in Buffalo, NY last week and I was there…all the live long…

Big D

Just a cyclical element of my genetic charm. Ah, Big D. You come and you go and always come back. Tis not the weather I love Winter! And…

Apartment and Books

Apartment and Books. So… This past week I’ve been GRUMPY. Grumpy. Grumpy. *That time of the month* grumpy. Overworked. Tired. Poor. Unhealthy. But I’ve been reading like a…

Weekend Update

Weekend Update. Ah, the weekend started on a high note. I was all about HAPPY HOUR at Target. Right after work I wanted to hit the store to…

Three, Three Things About Buffalo

Three, Three Things about Buffalo? THREE PLACES I LOVE THE MOST IN BUFFALO 1. Shakespeare Hill/Marcy Casino/Hoyt Lake/Delaware Park/Albright-Knox Area Pretty, pretty, pretty. I love nothing more in…