In our family, we try to exercise together everyday – we also grow our own tomatoes in our garden and garlic and coriander in our kitchen.  Whenever I see an old couple – walking unsteadily – I tell myself – if we could do something now – to prevent ourselves from being so weak when [...]

Did you know that raking the lawn can be fun and a good kind of exercise to get rid of stomach fat ?  if you didn’t know – let me share this secret with you.  Every fall, we  – the entire family would go out and rake the lawn and then pile it up high [...]

Yes! i didn’t know that too – I thought during fall – that’s when everything will start slowing down where the lawn and the yard is concern but i was told that the fall condition is the best time to fertilize them because the roots starts to store nutrients for the winter.  A fall feeding [...]

Fall is here – that’s for sure – the weather has turned really cold in the early mornings and quickly in the evenings too.  But I found some lime that we had grown in our garden and I picked the last of them this evening. Since we can’t buy them in the supermarket here – [...]

I don’t have many green fingers – in fact every time I buy a new plant or flower pot – the spouse would make fun of me – and say – I wonder how long this one will last.   But i love having  lot of small little pots of flowers sitting on my window sill [...]

This summer we were expecting full bloom at our home but instead this full bloom were at my neighbor’s house – darn!  How do they do that I don’t know !  afterall, we do have the same piece of land no?  Even their grass seems to do better than ours – we are so envious.   [...]

Preparing for our yearly BBQ last week – i ended up decorating my backyard a wee bit to welcome all the guest that i invited.  Friends and family in the neighborhood were all invited for our yearly BBQ. Weather was so awesome last week – we were really glad it all turned out good.

Just a [...]

If you know me or my blog by now – you know i love plants and flowers and I love the blooming ones or the unique looking plants – like the ones below this post.  So we hop around town and look at greenhouses during the weekend and I would just admire them and have [...]

Landscaping contractors are hard to hire around here – the ones that I’ve found so far are those who are doing it freelance and that’s not really what i want.  Why?  because there is no guarantee on the work and if anything should happen when they are working around my house – i don’t have [...]

It has been a really hot summer this year and we have really been blessed that this year everything is going so well in the job front for the spouse as well as the kids – they are all in good health.  I have gotten some help with the lawn and the backyard this year [...]