AKA The Farmhouse, Paonia, Colorado Great recipes for using seasonal veggies like Chard, Kale, Corn, and Zucchini follow: The following recipes are courtesy of renowned Aspen Chef Dava Parr (Paonia, resident). Chef Dava was pleased to share her delicious recipes with us and The Rocket (also known as Arugula) Salad was totally awesome! I learned […]
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Crystal, Colorado
July 28, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Crystal, Colorado is nearly a ghost town except for a few remaining cabins, occupied by dedicated seasonal residents. These cabins are leftover from its’ colorful mining heyday of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Most residents moved out by 1920. Crystal is probably most famous for the frequently photographed Crystal Mill above. It is also […]
Leadership Training Course
July 14, 2008 by · 4 Comments
My son Stephen left June 16, 2008 for LTC (Army lingo for Leadership Training Course) at Ft Knox, near Louisville, KY. His departure was exactly two months after his Dad (Duane) died. Needless to say, sending your son off to 4 weeks of intensive physical and mental challenges and training is a little hard on […]
Eating Well on a Limited Budget
March 29, 2008 by · 12 Comments
Ed Note: The below comment was originally posted to my blog by Jill Ferris. There is a great deal of wisdom here. Read on. Many years ago when I was worrying about how to eat healthily on a very very limited budget I met a young mother who was raised in a poor family (12 […]
Save money by Cooking at Home
March 29, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Sometimes tremendous savings in the food budget can be made by cooking from scratch, compared to using pre-packaged, pre-processed convenience foods. In some cases, though, you may need to invest in suitable equipment such as bread baking equipment, quality stainless steel cookware and bakeware, water purification product, etc. Duromatic pressure pans by Kuhn Rikon are […]
The Homemaker’s Mentor
March 27, 2008 by · 5 Comments
I just found out two of my favorite and most talented authors, Martha Green and Rebekah Wilson, authors of The Treasury of Homekeeping Skills and The Hope Chest and Grandmother’s Hope Chest books respectively, have a vision to train woman in many useful homemaking skills that you probably weren’t taught by your mother growing up. […]
Compare Top Drinking Water Contaminants
March 20, 2008 by · 1 Comment
Last week I talked about the best way to address emerging contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, in drinking water. Many people wrote to me asking me to clarify what the benefit of an R/O (Reverse Osmosis) Drinking Water System is, and how they can know which type of system is best for their family. Today, I […]
Living on a Dime
March 19, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
If you listen or read news headlines in the last few weeks, you have been hearing all about higher food prices, sharply higher gas prices, mortgage banking crises, wheat shortages, economic woes and so forth. Many of you are familiar with Living On A Dime and with Tawra and Jill’s money saving, get-out-of-debt, frugal living […]