The longest night of the year is a day behind us but winter has just begun, and it came in with a bang! We’re seeing-40c (that’s also -40f, for those of you south of the border) with a -50c wind chill for multiple days, and it is making everything unhappy. My car gave up trying yesterday, even plugged in and…
The GWG #3 prompt is to describe your garden right now and since it doesn’t exist, and all that is in the area is mud and snow, I’m going to move on to #4: write about your garden mentor or muse. The earliest gardener influence I had was my father. He passed on a love of growing; not so much…
What do you picture when you hear the question “what is your dream garden”? What does the area grow, vegetables, flowers, trees, bushes? Is it tame or wild? Today’s GWG prompt is “Describe your fantasy garden”. If you’d asked me this 20, or 10, or even 5 years ago, the answer would be a lot different. Without actual, real space…
Hard truth about me: I tend to be late to the party. I don’t mean I’m 10 minutes late to doctor appointments; I mean, I’ll notice a thing – a trend, a new product, some thing that is neat – but my mind isn’t in a place that is receptive at that exact moment in time, so the neat thing…
It’s been a while since I posted anything. The past year has been a hectic mix a bunch of adjectives that aren’t very optimistic or positive. We’ve come through the roughest part and things are definitely looking up… (aside from this head cold that has given me time in bed to sit here and type away, in between demolishing several…
On our FAQs page, I’ve details what is in our soaps, but in the interest of keeping that page short, I didn’t give a whole of information. I get frequent emails asking for more information about what is in our soaps, so I thought I’d bring all my answers together here. As stated in our FAQ page: “We use premium…
I get comments occasionally – from folks used to paying less than a dollar for store bought detergent “soap” bars – who range from confused to downright angry that I dare sell soap so expensive. A few points I’d like to make: ~ My costs, even buying supplies wholesale, are NOT cheap. I don’t cheap out and buy from whoever…
For the past few months, the exchange rate between the Canadian and US dollar has been dismal – at least for Canadians wanting to purchase things from the US. Right now, it’s 91 cents on the dollar, which means that if I order $50 in supplies from the US, it’ll cost me $54.91. But for those of you in the…