Summertime has ended and it's now time to get out the woolies! Cold feet are one of the first things I notice when the weather changes! Here's a great Gift Idea!
These are the ones I have and the ones I'm getting for my grandson!
These are the ones I have and the ones I'm getting for my grandson!
Some people just can't get enough of the great outdoors; they can't resist those outdoor activities. Hiking a mountain trail, riding a bike trail, fishing in a lake or stream, canoeing, and boating.
Whatever your pleasure is, the great outdoors offers it all. Some people like to take on some of these activities while camping. Other people, like myself, just like to relax enjoy the surroundings, cook up some great food, and meet new friends.
Camping is such a wonderful family activity. When our kids were growing up our family along with friends rented cottages on a small lake just south of Lake Erie in Western Pennsylvania.This Landmann Firepit was my Father's Day gift many years ago. Now in the spring, summer, and fall, we enjoy our backyard campfires.
Although many people here in Western New York like their backyard campfires all year long, I pull the plug when it starts to snow.
Landmann fire pits are made with sturdy steel construction and come with a poker and cooking grate.
You can find out here: How to Cook Corn on a Campfire.
Square Pie Iron - Cast Iron
You can't possibly have a backyard campfire without cooking up some Mountain Pies also known as Hobo Pies.
My Rome pie irons were yet another gift from my daughter for our backyard fires.
These pie irons are a heavy-duty cast iron design and will last forever if you take care of them. I clean and coat them on the inside and outside with vegetable oil after every use.
If you don't know how to make a mountain pie you can find out how here: Mountain Pies.
I have two favorite mountain pies, one is pizza with cheese, sauce, and pepperoni. The second is apple and cheddar cheese. This Creative Pie Iron Cooking book is loaded with many more recipes for your enjoyment. These are perfect gift ideas whether you're camping or want to enjoy some backyard fun.
Rome Industries 2011 Creative Pie Iron Cooking by Richard O'Russia
Glow In The Dark Home Decor Products |
Finding funky home decor items is a passion of mine. In the past couple of weeks, I've featured furniture with built-in speakers and furniture that comes with built-in USB charging stations. This week it's all about unsuspecting items for your home that can glow in the dark.
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From the sheets to the comforters, you can find children's bedding that glows in the dark. I haven't found a set for adults, lol. I suspect a glowing bed would be rather annoying for grown-ups. Kids love them, especially when they're not keen on bedtime or the dark.
Aren't these handy! Forget nightlights, just put up a set of shower curtains that glow in the dark. There's a safety element to these as well. When the little ones need to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, they just follow the glow from the hallway.
These are popular choices for a baby nursery or child's bedroom. Glow rugs are funky, interesting, and also a safety solution. Some have artistic colorful designs making them a perfect addition for a playroom or anywhere kids gather or sleep.
Now that's handy! When you're picking up the toys, and the lights are dim, their storage box glows so you can easily see it to toss the toys in. Use the bins for anything, including clothes and books. They come in multiple designs. You can check them out on the product page.
We're all familiar with glow stickers for kids that attach to the wall. They come in numerous designs and styles. However, if peel and sticking individual stickers aren't your thing, you can opt for a glow in the dark wall decal. A wall decal is one sheet, usually in a specific size. Get several and position them around your little one's room.
The product page at the top of this article features a variety of the home decor items discussed above. However, there are additional interesting glow-in-the-dark home decor items added to the product page that may not appear here. Be sure to check back if you're looking for funky, glowing home decor items.
Happy Decorating and Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
Normally, I review books that I can highly recommend to anyone. A Defense of Honor delves into some very unpleasant realistic attitudes, especially during the time period of the book's setting of London in 1816. Therefore, I would only recommend this book to someone who doesn't mind examining the dirty underbelly of society, as well as their own hearts and minds.
As I read the book, I found myself questioning several things, which is most unusual when reading a Christian fiction.
Kit FitzGilbert is "The Governess". She is hated by London society, even though her true identity is concealed. Her self-appointed job is to ensure that illegitimate children are financially supported by their wealthy fathers. She and her friends also protect the mothers and allow them a way to re-enter society without the child or society being any the wiser.
A Defense of Honor (Haven Manor Book #1)Kit, Daphne & Jess provide a home for the children which is supported by the funds that Kit extracts from their fathers.
Haven Manor is a large secluded estate that is overseen by a local solicitor, Nash Banfield. The owner has no desire to live there, so Nash allows the women and children to live in the manor. This arrangement benefits all parties because the women take care of the upkeep of the manor, the children have a home away from public awareness or scorn, and the owner's property maintains it's value.
It all works quite well for twelve years. Then, Kit meets Graham, the Viscount Wharton, who is heir to the earldom of Grableton, at a ball she was not invited to attend. When they go their separate ways, he doesn't even know her full name, but he is haunted by the memory of the beautiful woman in the green gown.
When Graham accidentally finds Kit at Haven Manor while searching for a friend's sister, he is thrilled to once again have an opportunity to get to know her. However, even though he now knows where she lives, he has no idea who she really is. In fact, until recently, he had never even heard of The Governess.
Their relationship is tested multiple times as he discovers more about her, the children, and the household. It is highly unlikely that a friendship between the two can continue.
Even though this is a Christian fiction, it challenged me. The reading was not difficult, but some of the judgemental attitudes of the characters were hard for me to embrace. I don't really understand being able to totally write-off someone you love and dismiss them completely from your life.
After reading certain chapters, I would stop and think about them. Question if I knew someone who had done anything like that. I wondered if the attitudes and actions were very "real-life". As I delved into my own memories, I found that I have known individuals who, in fact, walk away from family members and friends. They seemingly never look back, yet leave broken hearts and pain that can take years to overcome, if ever.
There was another point of opinion I found difficult. The main character, Kit, was judged harshly for the means she used to ensure illegitimate children were financially supported by their biological fathers. I'm not sure I see the great "sin" in her methods, even though I certainly see the danger.
Plus, the ending bothered me. I can't go into detail about that without ruining the book for you, but I would love to know how others feel about the plot's resolve. If you read the book, please come back and tell me what you thought.
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Fall 2020 |
Fall is also a wonderful time for photography. The sun is not quite as intense and therefore the lighting is better for daytime photographs. I love to wander in neighborhood parks and on trails and I always bring along my camera. On this page I will review with you some of my favorite things from the fall of 2020.
With a Hamama Microgreens Starter Kit and the company's proprietary seed quilts, growing and harvesting fresh, delicious, and nutritious microgreens is nearly effortless! |
Fresh, crisp microgreens are colorful, refreshing, and extremely nutritious. Since last year, when I committed to making healthy lifestyle changes, including a special focus on healthy food choices, I have been adding microgreens to salads, sandwiches, soups, eggs, and other dishes as often as possible.
Although buying packaged microgreens at our local Whole Foods is an expensive and frustrating proposition, growing my own hadn't seemed like a viable option, given my poor track record with keeping even healthy plants alive, much less growing them from seed.
Then, four months ago, I found out about an innovative microgreens growing system from a company called Hamama, which was designed to be as as simple, effortless, and low-maintenance as possible, so that even container gardening newbies like me could grow these healthy, tasty, nutrient-dense greens year-round.
The proprietary, patent pending Hamama Seed Quilt Growing System is the brainchild of co-founders Camille Richman and Daniel Goodman, who met when they were mechanical engineering students at the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following their graduation from MIT, they worked together full-time at the MIT Media Lab, researching high tech indoor agriculture. After growing food both in the lab and at home for several years, they wanted to make it possible for more people to experience the benefits of growing healthy food at home.
In May, I decided to order a Hamama Microgreens Starter Kit, including three seed quilts and a reusable grow tray. I was surprised and delighted by the results, and a few weeks later, I ordered two more growing trays and 18 more seed quilts. Although I've skipped a week here and there, I've successfully grown and harvested around more than a dozen seed quilts at this point. Now, I'm anxious to share my experience, and perhaps inspire others to try growing their own healthy, delicious, superfood microgreens, even if they have never had any experience, or luck, growing vegetables in the past.
P.S. Make sure to read all the way to the end of this review to find out how to get a 10% discount off the purchase price of your first order of a Hamama Microgreens Starter Kits, Seed Quilts, or other microgreens growing accessories!
Increasing our consumption of nutritious, dark leafy greens is an important part of healthy eating. The USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend eating more fruits and vegetables, including dark leafy greens. For those of us who have chosen a low carb, ketogenic approach to eating, dietary restrictions make it even harder to get enough nutrients from the foods we eat, rather than from supplements.
Adding more microgreens to our diets, in particular, provides even greater health benefits. A 2012 research study found that microgreens contain between four and 40 times higher concentrations of essential nutrients than their mature counterparts!
These nutrient-dense, immature plants can be excellent sources of key vitamins such as C, E, K, and also carotenoids including lutein and beta-carotene (a precursor to Vitamin A aka retinol), two important antioxidants provide a wide range of health benefits, including helping to protect our eyes against macular degeneration.
We enjoy a large, colorful, salad with a generous helping of freshly harvested microgreens every day! |
Unfortunately, many supermarkets and grocery stores either don't sell them, or run out of them quickly. Even when I've been lucky enough to find one or two containers, those commercially grown microgreens have cost a pretty penny. Far too often, the expensive organic microgreens we've bought at our local Whole Foods Market have become not just limp but slimy and inedible after just one or two days in the vegetable drawer of our fridge. Most are also sold in single-use, plastic clamshell packaging, which is bad for the environment.
Finding organic microgreens or ones that have been grown from non-GMO seeds can also be a challenge.
Unfortunately, since March, these problems have been further exacerbated by the widespread negative impact of the current, unprecedented health crisis.
Buying packets of loose seeds and growing them on a bed of moistened potting mix, soil, or coconut coir is, without question, the cheapest way to grow microgreens at home. However, it also requires watering the seeds once or twice a day, and monitoring their progress daily, from the the time they are planted until they are ready to be harvested, usually takes somewhere between 9 days and a few weeks. And they do best with 4–6 hours of direct sunlight, or natural light supplemented by a grow light(s).
While this may be a good option for experienced container gardening enthusiasts, not everyone was blessed with a "green thumb," or enjoys growing things from seed. Some of us just want to have convenient and consistent access to a variety of microgreens and enjoy them when they are at their freshest, tastiest, and most nutritious, and are happy to pay more for an approach that requires significantly less time and effort than growing these immature greens from seed.
That's why Hamama developed its proprietary seed quilt system, which makes growing fresh, delicious, nutrient-rich microgreens indoors as easy, effortless, and care-free as possible.
Each seed quilt consists of three layers (excluding the seeds):
The seeds are sandwiched between the white felt layer and the light brown paper cover, divided into 20 long, narrow, rectangular, "quilted" sections that hold the seeds in place in a fairly even distribution.
Growing a Hamama microgreens seed quilt is as easy as 1-2-3:
You can harvest the entire seed quilt at once and store whatever microgreens you won't use immediately in the refrigerator, if you wish, or harvest a few sections at a time over the next few days.
I often grow more than one Hamama seed quilt at a time |
Hearty Broccoli, Refreshing Cabbage, Spicy Daikon Radish, Super Salad Mix, Sweet Wheatgrass, Zesty Mix, Energizing Kale, Earthy Clover, Hot Wasabi Mustard, and Fragrant Fenugreek. All the seeds in Hamama's microgreens seed quilts are non-GMO Six are also organic (Energizing Kale, Fragrant Fenugreek, Hearty Broccoli, Spicy Daikon Radish, Earthy Clover, and Sweet Wheatgrass). The company is working on making the switch to an all certified organic line.
Use my Hamama shopping link, add the products you want to the shopping cart, then use the discount code SUPERGREENS during checkout to get 10% off your product total.
Hamama Microgreens Starter Kit and Seed Quilts Review by Margaret Schindel
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