REVIEW: A Heart Stuck on Hope by Jennie Jones

One dollar a week rent entices a single mom to move with her eight-year-old troubled daughter to a small town in Australia. A HEART STUCK ON HOPE by Jennie Jones is a fun beginning to a multi-author series. Thirty-one-year-old single mother Adele Devereux and her eight-year-old daughter take advantage of the one dollar a week…

Category: Books, Contemporary Romance 2016 Reading Challenge, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2016

REVIEW: Midnight Wrangler by Cat Johnson

Contemporary Western Romance fans will enjoy this couple pushing toward midlife who reunite after an unexplained separation twenty-five years ago in MIDNIGHT WRANGLER by Cat Johnson. Rohn Lerner, owner of the Double L Ranch, seems rather cranky to his ranch hands. Several years older than his young cow hands, Rohn can’t make them understand he…

Category: Books, Contemporary Romance 2016 Reading Challenge, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2016

Buckwheat Adventure and Egg Surprise – Winter Farm Share Week 9

Buckwheat Adventure and Egg Surprise kicks off our 9th week in Fresh Fork Market’s Vegetarian Pilot program. I think what I’ve learned the most by participating in a farm share is flexibility. The hardest part is fighting myself when I decide I want mushrooms with the pork chops I’ve taken out of the freezer. I’ve learned…

Category: Food, What's for Dinner?

TBR Challenge 2016: Saving Home by Marie Ferrarella

SAVING HOME by Marie Ferrarella boasts a contemporary setting that is quaint, with a past that’s about to be discovered by a family in need of a miracle. TBR Challenge 2016 – Theme: Series Catch-Up, Contemporary Romance 2016 Reading Challenge Why was this book in Dorine’s TBR? I enjoy the Love Inspired line at Harlequin,…

Category: Books, Contemporary Romance 2016 Reading Challenge, Reviews, TBR Challenge 2016, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2016

Waking to Winter Beauty in Ohio

This was the view from my kitchen this morning. I stood there with my mouth hanging open for a minute. I was expecting snow, a lot of snow, but the shock and awe of the first major snowfall is always breathtaking. It’s intimidating too because of all the work it takes to dig out of…

Category: Garden, Life through the Lens

REVIEW: Chasing River by K. A. Tucker

An intriguing modern day novel set in Ireland, CHASING RIVER drew me in by its scenic location. Political unrest is part of the conflict that faces a couple from two different worlds who find themselves falling in love. Can an American sheriff’s daughter and an Irish Republican’s brother find common ground to bind them forever?…

Category: Books, Contemporary Romance 2016 Reading Challenge, Life through the Lens, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2016, Travel, Travel Highlights

Roots and Frozen – Winter Farm Share Week 8

Roots and Frozen describes our Vegetarian Pilot Winter Farm Share Week 8 beautifully. I think frozen describes my brain because I forgot to post about the January 29th share! I have no idea how that passed me by, other than the last two weeks have been exceptionally busy. I was really excited about this share,…

Category: Food, What's for Dinner?

REVIEW: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

There is nothing I love more than A WALK IN THE WOODS myself, so reading about thru-hikers is fascinating to me. After reading this book by Bill Bryson, I realize I need more of his books! I love travelogues, so Bill Bryson’s books have long been on my radar. I caught the bug with WILD…

Category: Books, Hiking, Life through the Lens, Movie Review, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2016, Travel, Travel Highlights

Zesty Salsa Bean Salad Recipe – Meatless Monday

This Zesty Salsa Bean Salad Recipe is inspired by a salad made by my mother that she got from Taste of Home. I loved that recipe so much that I couldn’t stop messing with it throughout the year, adding this or that until I came up with this combination that makes the “love of color”…

Category: Food, Meatless Monday, Recipe, What's for Dinner?

A Cottage Garden in Ohio – Part 1

Visiting a Cottage Garden in Ohio brings back memories of my great-grandmother, Nanny, who grew many of these same beauties when I was child. Gardening is more fun when it’s shared with a friend. Especially if it’s one who is as obsessed as you are and loves the same unusual peculiarities of the plant world….