Monthly Archives: April 2012

Great Find: lay and no play SOLD

Willie thinks this is a honey of a find! A while back I wrote a post, titled “All Lay and No Play,” that featured this cluckin’ cool piece of artwork by Julene Ewert. This cool little chickie was made using thin layers of beeswax and …

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gardening month

It’s about bloomin’ time!

It’s April and things are finally starting to feel like spring around here.

It’s like everything (and everyone) took a giant exhale and then relaxed.

Now it’s time for Mother Nature to get fancy. Flowers blooming, birds singing, little buds of green shooting up everywhere.

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Kiva

How much do you think it takes to change the world? Probably a lot, right?

What if you knew you could do it for as little as $25?

You totally can.

How? …

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WINNER! Happiness Project Book Set

Thanks to all who shared what makes them the most happy for a chance to win The Happiness Project book set. And the winner is …

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girls be gabbin’

Yarrrrr! Happy Saturday, one and all. Such positive responses we’re receiving from everyone about GirlGab. It’s SO much fun to see what everyone is up to day-to-day, and how much we all have in common! (Like, duh, totally.) Today, Rebecca Almy, Sister #3433, is giving a review of one of my favorite books, The Dirty Life, by Kristin Kimball. Andrea Furber, Sister #4019, is making …

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Pretty Pleach?

Pleach.

Hmmm … okay …

The pleading cry of a baby bird? As in,

PLEACH! (Translation: Momma, I need a worm NOW!)

Nope, that’s not it. Try again.

Maybe it’s shorthand (shortmouth?)—a new slang term around the orchard, as in:

“Please pass the peach!”

Uh-huh. Not even close.

I’m grasping at straws, aren’t I? (How farmer of me.)

Pleach [pleech] is a verb that means to interweave or braid. Think branches, vines, wreaths, arbors …

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