What do you get when you mix garbanzo beans, a bathroom renovation, and a red beetle?  A post about my summer. Here it is, already July.  T...

Honeysuckles blooming in May On this last day of May, I've been thinking about all the things I've learned this month. Early ...

In my ongoing quest to shake up the menus around here, I recently tried a couple of new recipes.  One is a soup that appeared in the March ...

Spring, in all its fickle glory, has arrived in northern Illinois.  The earth is slowly coming back to life after our long, snowy w...

We love seafood here at the Sweet Posy house.  Shrimp is one of my favorites (and clams, and trout, and salmon; okay, okay, I'll stop)....

When we bought our house twenty years ago, the kitchen was not one of its selling points.  If we were to list it for sale tomorrow, ...

I'm not dead, but I sure have been MIA from blogland for a while.  I've had ideas for posts and even taken some photos, but haven...

Yesterday was one of those cook-from-the-pantry days.  It was gray and rainy, and I didn't want to go to the grocery store.  I almost a...

After my latest trip down south, I've been feeling calm and in control.  Getting some work done, taking some walks (like the abov...

Completed large basket and almost completed medium basket with lots of Thick and Quick still to use up! I've gone a little crazy t...

Today I took a little mental health break.  I slipped on rubber shoes, bundled Alfie into the car, and drove about ten miles south to a nea...

Last week I was down south visiting the old, the sick, and the infirm (aka my family).  While I was there, sometimes with not much to do, I...

It's late summer and the herb pot is full and luxurious.  There's a lot of parsley out there needing to be eaten.  What to do?  Mak...

Meet the newest member of our extended family -- Percy.  I call him Percy, FFD, which stands for Face Free Dog. This is the best I co...