Planting Flowers Part Two   Have you started a garden yet? With the crazy weather people are having, some people may not be able to plant until fall!  We live in the south and usually have our garden in by mid to end of March but this year that didn’t happen.  Our southern spring started out cold!  It did warm up long enough for the roses and azaleas to start to bud only to have freezing weather and there went the buds.  It was still unsettled weather in April but

NATIONAL HELP A HORSE DAY National Help a Horse Day is observed annually on April 26th.  Equine rescues and sanctuaries across the country hold events celebrating the horse.  The events are designed to raise awareness and advocate for abused and neglected horses across the country. HISTORY The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded National Help a Horse Day to bring awareness and promote intervention of abandoned, neglected and abused horses across the country.   ************** What a perfect day to share photos of one of the

World Penguin Day April 25th I just found out today is World Penguin Day and since two of my granddaughters and I love Penguins, I decided this would be a great blog topic for Day 25 in the Ultimate Blog Challenge. The annual northward migration of penguins is usually around April 25th and they live mostly in the southern hemisphere of Antarctica , South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, the Falkland Islands, and the Galápagos Islands. Penguins don’t fly but they can swim up to 22 miles an hour

Hunting for Wayward Golf Balls    Here we are, in the Golf Capital of the World but we don’t golf!   Our interior decorating store is in a small strip mall that backs up to a golf course.  Every morning when we pull into our parking lot, hubby and I go Hunting for Wayward Golf Balls!  Sometimes we don’t find any, other times we find a few but today hubby hit the jackpot and came in with six golf balls!!  During working hours, we hear them hitting the back of our

Vegetable Picnic Dinner   A picnic can be any kind of food, right?  I had my blog topic all planned then I found out it is National Picnic Day today! So for picnic day I’m going to share with you my vegetable picnic dinner that is not only delicious but it is so inexpensive.   I love fresh vegetables and our local grocery store is getting in some great specials.  They had corn on the cob for 18 cents an ear and summer squash for $1.74 per pound.  I still

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