About
After two busy professional lives in the Midwest, we relocated to my native state, New Hampshire. We now enjoy not setting the alarm clock and seeing what the day brings which can be a quick trip to the beach or a ride to the mountains.
I am an Advanced Master Gardener who loves to garden, and a gardener always needs a person with carpentry skills so I’m lucky that my husband can fill that role.
And, the best job we have ever had is being grandparents. Our granddaughter is a beautiful eleven-year old who loves fashion design, history, Breyer horses, and her American Girl dolls. Our handsome grandson is a mighty seven-year old who loves numbers and is an expert at board and video games.
Two grandparents plus two grandchildren equal four happy people enjoying a variety of indoor and outdoor adventures together. We like to garden organically, camp around the New England area, travel to interesting historical locations, and just spend time together.
Stop by and enjoy our adventures and let us know what you’re doing with your family. Life is short, really short, so spend your time with the really important people in your life – your family.
Welcome home, fellow gardener. What a lovely blog you have here. There is plenty here to like and learn. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Hi I’m also retired (just) with two beautiful baby grandchildren. I love gardening, the beach and trave. I now NEVER wear a watch
Thanks for stopping by, and I’m with you about the watch. The days of the watch, Blackberry, pager and being on call 24/7 are over – well, unless we’re discussing grandkids.
Thank you for stopping by!
My husband’s the master gardener, and the cook. Lucky me. Have 2 awesome 7-yo grandchildren. May I suggest my Friday blogs for you and your grandson. I’m on a math jag now.
Well, certainly you can and I’ll head right over and check it out. Thank you very much.
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Well, thank you very much. So kind of you to think of us.
You are very welcome!
Thank you for liking my Wordless Wednesday post! You have a nice blog too!
Thanks so much for visiting my blog and liking my photo! I appreciate it very much. I’ve enjoyed my visit here and i look forward to following your posts.
Great blog, glad I found it. My husband and I are also Master Gardeners here on Cape Cod. We are also into roses, we grow about 800+ in our yard. Our chickens amuse us as do our two grandsons who live here on the Cape (15 and 11) It’s pouring outside right now, maybe I will get something done in the house today – it’s been on the back burner!
Thanks for stopping by. I’m chuckling even thinking about 800+ roses because it makes me feel good about my 400+ Hosta. We harvested our first crop of chicken compost this year, and it has been great. Fresh eggs and compost are a good thing. Hope we get some warmer weather so all our grandkids can enjoy summer here in New England.
We used to have chickens in a tractor that my husband moved every day so different parts of the lawn would be fertilized with the chickens. We don’t have chickens any more, but we have green grass!
Do you have green grass now because the chickens aren’t eating it?
The chickens mostly ate the bugs, not the grass. And, because the tractor was moved every day, there wasn’t time for them to scratch it up and kill it.
In our area, if the chickens ate the ticks you could probably rent tractors out. We have a huge tick problem from CT on north.
The chickens didn’t eat the ticks. I don’t know why. We bought guinea hens because they’re supposed to be really good against ticks. But, they weren’t good at protecting their young and tried to stay in the trees at night so we couldn’t protect them in a chicken coop. They were all dead in six months. Keeping the grass low seems to be the ticket for keeping the tick population down.