A few days late this month as I have just not had a ton of motivation. I can blame it slightly on the heat wave we have been living through, slightly on it being a week filled with anxiety with ants coming in the house due to the heat, and strangeness around restrictions lifting and … Continue reading the best books i read this month – june 2021
Despite switching buses outside of my favourite thrift store twice a day it has been a while since I have been thrifting. This week I was able to make the time work and went in to explore however and was very successful. It has been over two months since I have pulled out my spring … Continue reading summer 2021 thrift haul and tips
Every month I start these posts with not believing that it is the end of another month and this post is no exception. Summer has really snuck up on me, but I am ready to embrace it the best that I can. We have gotten some bikes that had been living at my parents and … Continue reading the best books i read this month – may 2021
Although I haven’t been posting many garden updates so far this year, things have slowly but surely been starting. If you missed my garden planning post you can check it out here and my February update here. Now let’s start with seedlings. If I have learned anything this year it is that seedlings and I … Continue reading may garden update – first harvests and hopes
Last summer we bought a deep freezer. There was the opportunity for us to receive food that wasn’t going to be used due to everything being closed and we couldn’t turn that away so we made space in the garage and filled up our new freezer with food. And fill it we did. Almost a … Continue reading no groceries for a month
Ah April, this month seemed to fly by. Between the false summer we had here in BC (28 degrees and wearing shorts, what?), work starting to truly get busy, and Nigel starting a new job, the end of this month really caught me off guard. Looking back at the books that I read this month … Continue reading the best books i read this month – april 2021
I work in a library and when you work in a library there are certain authors that you see again and again. People are always checking out their books, full shelves (and more) are dedicated to their works and some authors *cough* James Patterson *cough* seem to have a new book coming in every week. … Continue reading writers i’ve never read challenge
I am not a last minute decision making person. There is little that frustrates me more than getting home near dinner-time and not knowing what dinner is going to be. I find that in the situations that I get overwhelmed with decision, as I progressively get hungrier and then just end up making mac and … Continue reading how we meal plan
It has been a while since I last did an update on my empties and the bag where I keep them was beginning to get very full. Along with many other things that changed over the past year looking through my empties also shows some of the changes that I am making in my makeup … Continue reading spring 2021 empties
I didn’t mean to take almost a month away from this blog, but somehow it happened. I took a pause for a moment and then that moment moved into weeks as I just didn’t feel called to write anything. I sat down with my computer once or twice fully intending to put a blog post … Continue reading what i’ve been up to
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