Buying Local for Christmas

I know, I know..it’s early, but I’d like to give you some ideas for Christmas presents or even upcoming birthday presents. I really like supporting local artists and these all are within a couple hours from where I live in Southern Indiana. The first is my new fiber artist friend Katherine Sands, who lives an…

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Craft Fair Finds

Yesterday, Dave and I went to one of my favorite craft fairs here in our town of Newburgh. It’s put on by the local women’s group and held at the local high school. I really like this fair because even though it is smaller than the Christmas fair held in the same school, to me…

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In The Mail

It’s been a wonderful week so far regarding mail here at Happy Acres. A couple of the goodies include this book. What is neat about this book is that on page 180 in the Managing Transitions chapter is my article “Using dialogue to move on with my life.” I wrote (and rewrote) this article many…

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Our First CSA Allotment

What an exciting day! This morning we picked up our first monthly CSA allotment from Stonewall Farm. CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is where customers buy a share in the year’s crop in exchange for paying at the beginning of the season. This is the first year for Stonewall Farms, located on the westside of Evansville,…

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Iris Tagging

I will be tagging all of my irises this year. In the past couple of years I’ve tried doing this with a variety of different tags and they all pop out of their location after the ground froze. Dave bought me some nice tags to use this year. The only problem was there were only…

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