This and That

Thanks for those of you who took the time to email me good wishes. I do feel better today and am trying to catch up.

I got a hair cut over the weekend - a shorter (and perkier according to the Rock) for warm weather. I like it, it is shorter than I have had it in forever.

Discovered a great tip when making strawberry shortcake. Slice up your berries and then sprinkle a little balsamic vinegar and a TINY amount of sugar (maybe 2 tablespoons of vinegar per quart and ONE tablespoon of sugar). Trust me on this and just do it. You then refrigerate at least an hour, but, longer is better. This really makes them juicy and you can't taste the vinegar at all - there is just something better than without the balsamic vinegar.)

Thanks to a suggestion from a reader I am going to try doing different themes for various days beginning Monday.

Monday - Recipe Day
Tuesday - Kid's Day
Wednesday - Blogs and Home Business Day
Thursday - Tips and Home Routine Days
Friday - Hobbies including Gardening

Thanks Domestic Chicky!


If you have blogs about any of these, email me with the link and I will promote your blog on the appropriate day. I will also be adding a blog roll and can add your blog there. And I will be sure and stop by daily, see what's new and click on anything you need clicking on!

I am also going to be talking about Peg Bracken's books a great deal, as I mentioned last week. The first is The I Hate to Housekeep Book - I am finishing up a rereading of this delightful little volume. Tell me Ms. Bracken doesn't have us Barefoot Domestic Goddesses in mind when she says "My own goals are more modest. I only want to make it around the clock, that's all, and I don't want to think about it too much eitehr, because I'm thinking about something else. If you're a bit nervous in the service anyway, and your mind is on raising the African violet or running an office or painting a picture, reorganizing yourself into an efficient housewife is a grian step you're not about to take. You want an aspirin, not radical surgery."

Ms. Bracken, who I am just going to start calling Peg, since she really does seem like an old friend, calls us Random Housekeepers. And I suppose she is correct on that point. Her other two categories or Spotless Housekeepers (the gal who won't stop) and Spotful (the gal who won't start). Those of us who are Random are just here in the middle.

I also think that the Fly Lady approach ties in nicely and we will have some more discussion of that.

I have planted more seeds (this will end soon) and have some more to get going yet. I have been aspired a new in the gardening realm by the Chelsea Garden Show I love to browse the gardens at the show and I point you especially to this one -

WOW - isn't that something!!! While I think it should have won Best of Show, it did win the Silver-Gilt Flora. Here is link to the website for the garden that did it and especially note the diary of the past year on all the work involved. It makes my own garden chores look easy. And it gives me some new ideas of my own.