A-Z Blogging Challenge -- "B"

 Well, Hello there!!! I am so pleased that you stopped by  to visit!
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  For the past many years I have had an interest...no, make that a fascination with herbs, spices and seasonings. -  How they were used by our ancestors centuries ago for a variety of ailments, and how they are used today to enhance your favorite recipe.
With this in mind I am attempting to present a different herb, spice or seasoning  for each day of the  A-Z Challenge. Please drop by often and perhaps we both will learn something new.

                                                             
Learn more about these terms 

                                "B" is for Basil

A-Z Blogging Challenge ---"A"

                                                     
                                                   
 Well, Hello there!!! I am so pleased that you stopped by  to visit!
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    For the past many years I have had an interest...no, make that a fascination with herbs, spices and seasonings. - About how they were used by our ancestors centuries ago for a variety of ailments, and how they are used today to enhance your favorite recipe.

With this in mind I am attempting to present a different herb, spice or seasoning  for each day of the  A-Z Challenge. Please drop by often and perhaps we both will learn something new.

Learn more about these terms.

And..... we're off!!

           "A" is for Allspice

Intro to A-Z Blogging

Well, Hello there!!! I am so pleased that you stopped by  to visit!
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    For the past many years I have had an interest...no, make that a fascination with herbs, spices and seasonings. - About how they were used by our ancestors centuries ago for a variety of ailments, and how they are used today to enhance your favorite recipe.

With this in mind I am attempting to present a different herb, spice or seasoning  for each day of the  A-Z Challenge. Please drop by often and perhaps we both will learn something new.

Easter

                           Happy Easter to all. 

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Wordless Wednesday-- Daffodils

March 27,2013

Where do the days go?? Can't believe it is Wednesday already.  It is finally time to start enjoying the benefits of spring..... well some of the early ones, anyway!
Thanks to Create With Joy for the Linky

Wordless Wednesday

March 20,2013


With spring officially starting tomorrow and the weather forecast is for 20+ cm of snow, I am consoling myself with pictures from last summer.... and live in hope of better weather to come.
Many thanks to Older Mommy Still Yummy for the Linky

Wordless Wednesday

 March 13,2013


March is the month, that in this part of Canada we start to see the signs of spring. Snow receding, robins singing and ice breaking up.

Wordless Wednesday

March 06,2013

Living in Canada one has to know what the national pass time is. --- As this a family friendly blog I will tell you right away before your mind starts to wander!!!!--- Hockey!!

Friday Photo Share- "H" is for Hiking

March 1,2013 

Week #8 of ABC Friday Photo Share. Here it is the first of March already and with  another huge dumping of snow upon us we can safely say March came "in like a lion"!  Thanks to Maple Leaf Mommy and Mom vs.the Boys for being our vehicle on this journey.

Wordless Wednesday

February 27,2013


It is an absolutely beautiful sunny day in this part of Eastern Canada. We have all been sun deprived for so long that we almost forget how to be joyful.

Wellness

February 26,2013

As this short month of February enters its final days I would be terribly remiss if I did not dedicate at least one post to what February is all about..... at least from a health perspective. That,  my friends, is a discussion about Heart and Stroke Month.

ABC Friday Photo Share "G" is for ---Grain

February 22,2013


Well, I have to admit that I had a hard time, and with a letter that so many words start with one would think that there would be lots of choices....not  so!

Wordless Wednesday

Feb.20,2013


I recently celebrated a birthday and a dear friend, who was out of the country at that time, dropped in to say hello.

Wordless Wednesday

February 13,2013

While trying to pick a photo for this post I just thought about the date

ABC Photo Photo Share " E" is for... Epipen

For this weeks photo  I am being rather uncharacteristically  serious.  It is actually sometimes a matter of life and death.

Wordless Wednesday

February 5,2013

The fact that it is February and the groundhog  has deemed we have another 6 weeks of winter, I thought this guy is  way too comfortable here.

ABC Friday --D is for Dog

              Thanks to Mom vs the Boys for the ABC Friday Photo Share.







This  Friday I seemed to have misplaced my "thinking cap"  or it has blown away in the unusually high winds of this week.

Blogathon Week End Wrap Up.

Well, fellow bloggers it has been a fast, furious and fantastic  72 hours or so.   Today I have not been able to fan the flames of activity that were present in the first two days, but I'm trying to cut myself some slack.  The goal of this, at least for me, was to meet and interact with other bloggers and  that was accomplished!   Speaking of goals, I will show you my list and how it looks now.

My "to do list for this, my second blogathon...
~Take part in some mini challenges --don't know how many yet-
~Check out abt. 35 sites per day.
~Sample my box lunch and assess my hydration*                                      
~Put my posts in appropriate 'files'
~Learn more about "Linkedin" and other sites
~Get up and walk around to stretch my legs and relieve my derriere*
~Respond to any posts on my site
~Have fun learning 


I still have not worked on the housekeeping aspect of my blog, but like other housekeeping tasks this one will still be there when I have time to get back to it.
It has been a joy meeting all the new and not so new bloggers and interacting with you.  This was the first "twitter party" I have ever participated in,and my comment to that was a resounding WOW!  It will surely be on my list of "must do" activities for next time. All in all I spent about 18 hours, which is short of the ideal 24 hours, but a good chunk of week-end was absorbed with the blogathon fun.

Many thanks again to Kathleen Garber and "the team" for their tireless efforts and patience with people like me who do not share their experience or expertise.   It has been great!

Blogathon WeekEnd -Day 2 Mini Challenge

As part of the blogathon, there are several mini challenges that have been posted. The contributors of these challenges are incredibly smart techi-types, but in their kindness they are helping people like me to learn new aspects of blogging.  One of  these is  challenge #8- Photo Editing Tools for Bloggers @ Geek With Style   Here is my entry.

After reading  your pros and cons re different types of Photo Editing tools available, I feel I should give it some thought before investing. I now use a simple but effective site called picmonkey  to edit most of the photos I use. I must state here, however, that I do not know how to put a watermark on my pictures ( I realize there is a challenge for this.... have not attempted it .....Yet). This site crops, resizes, and all the basic tools for free (now).  I have a Windows 7 operating system,and am cautious. If Aeryn Lynne is having difficulty I am not even attempting it!!

I picked this picture of a lonely picnic table in the winter snow because it has a sad kind of beauty to it.
The only things I did was enhance the color and add my blog name to it. I would appreciate any help or advice.

Blogathon Week End -Day #2

Back at it for another day, well, actually it will be only a part of a day as I have a previous engagement..... sounds like I have a life, when in fact it is just that happens to coincide with  a "Family Day".