Root Vegetable Paradise – Winter Farm Share Week 5

It’s a Root Vegetable Paradise in Winter Farm Share Week 5 Vegetarian Pilot from Fresh Fork Market. Lots of goodies perfect for soups and casseroles to come. We couldn’t wait a minute to try the Broccoli Soup so we had it that night. It was spicy and full flavored deliciousness — more please! I’m loving…

Category: Food, What's for Dinner?

REVIEW: Morrow Creek Marshal by Lisa Plumley

MORROW CREEK MARSHAL by Lisa Plumley is an easy read that brings the flavor of the old west alive in 1885 Northern Arizona Territory. A dance hall girl and a drifter voted in as temporary sheriff spar and flirt, while a gang of outlaws plan to use their relationship to their advantage. Marielle Miller earned…

Category: Books, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2015

Brussels Sprouts Bliss – Winter Farm Share Week 4

This is Brussels Sprouts Bliss week. I had no idea I would ever say that in my lifetime! Winter Farm Share Week 4 (Vegetarian Pilot) from Fresh Fork Market had several standouts and some of them weren’t so obvious until the cleaning and sorting was done. That’s when I realized the size and volume of…

Category: Food, What's for Dinner?

SOMETHING TO PROVE by Kimberly Lang raises anticipation for Tate and Molly's story coming in January 2016 in EVERYTHING AT LAST.

REVIEW: Something to Prove by Kimberly Lang

SOMETHING TO PROVE by Kimberly Lang is an unusual small town contemporary romance with a bad girl coming home for a reunion with all the people who thought she’d never amount to anything. Book one kicks off this new series and creates anticipation for book two. Helena Wheeler, best known as “hell on wheels” to…

Category: Books, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2015

Hiking Challenge Extra – Plum Creek

It’s fun when your family loves the outdoors as much as you do. We added in an extra Fall hike with our son and granddaughters at Plum Creek Park in Medina County, Ohio, in mid November. It doesn’t officially count for our Fall challenge because of the county difference but an extra is always okay…

Category: Hiking, Life through the Lens, Travel, Travel Highlights

Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart!

We saw this arrangement at Pipestem Resort State Park in West Virginia and we thought how appropriate for this time of year. I do give thanks with a grateful heart to family and friends who make my life so zestful. From our family to yours, may you have a zest filled Thanksgiving! I’ll share more…

Category: Life through the Lens, Travel, Travel Highlights

Sunset at Springfield Lake reflects colors of Autumn

Sunsets draw me to them like a moth to flame. Nothing ends a day more beautifully than a sunset, in my opinion. I quickly veered off from our destination when I saw this one developing at Springfield Lake, Ohio. When the sun starts going down behind a treeline, you have to be quick, so I…

Category: Life through the Lens, Travel, Travel Highlights

REVIEW: A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley

This novel is like an archaeological dig of words, with the main character in this century unraveling the clues about the main character in the past. Exciting and intriguing, A DESPERATE FORTUNE surprises with unexpected emotion. A great mixture of a modern day story following a mystery as it unfolds in history, A DESPERATE FORTUNE…

Category: Books, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2015

Winter Farm Share week 3 is tart and sweet

Our Vegetarian Pilot for Winter Farm Share week 3 from Fresh Fork Market is tart and sweet, with tart Goldrush apples and sweet Heirloom tomato sauce. I was quite surprised with the burst of flavor from the Goldrush apples. They’re tart like a Granny Smith with a bit more of a lemon citrus added to…

Category: Food, What's for Dinner?

REVIEW: Down the Rabbit Hole anthology by J. D. Robb + more

Five authors play with an ALICE IN WONDERLAND theme in this widely diverse anthology of novellas. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE kicks off with WONDERMENT IN DEATH by J. D. Robb, book 41.5 in her IN DEATH series. I haven’t read an IN DEATH book in several years but it didn’t take me long to reconnect…