I don’t know about your weather, be ours is super hot, humid and sometimes rain. Then after the rain it gets even hotter! On days when it’s too hot to cook I love making a quick cucumber and tomato salad. My neighbor has a small garden but it produces so many cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers. Some of the cucumbers are small but they are so delicious and don’t have that bitter taste like when they got too large. About every other day he has a bag on the handle of

My steady readers know I love coming up with ideas to reuse something that I have hanging around the house or yard. My latest project was when I repurposed a galvanized bucket that was hanging on the back fence just waiting to be turned into something useful after I saved it from the recycling center years ago. Why not make a large flower pot?? But since the bucket is about 12″ deep I would need a lot of soil to fill it and that would be super heavy. So I

I’m visiting my daughter and son-in-law and I found another Catholic church to visit in a town over from Manassas. I went there yesterday for the evening Mass and both the inside and outside are beautiful. It even has a prayer garden that I visited. These are pictures of the peaceful little prayer garden in a wooded area across from the church. I love visiting the different churches while visiting other areas and it was so peaceful sitting in the prayer garden to meditate. I hope you enjoyed my Spiritual

Today is Silly Saturday and while this may not be silly, I hope it makes you smile. Snowball loves ice cream but he has to wait until I tell him it’s okay to eat it. “Mom, I’m patiently waiting for my ice cream.” “Is it okay if I eat it now?” “I can’t rush into eating, first I have to bless this food.” “Thanks mom, this ice cream is so good!” Snowball loves ice cream and he patiently waits for it. I hope Snowball made you smile today!

I’m so excited to be sharing another Friday Story Time by Lia about getting organized in Indiana. Mommy and I moved up here the end of March to be closer to her brother. This is a blog I wrote for the April UBC on our moving day. http://themarthareview.com/our-new-chapter/ I only had a few weeks left in school when we moved but I did very good in all my classes. Soon I will be going to 2nd grade but for the summer I’m spending time between Indiana and South Carolina. Ma

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