HiHoRosie's Place

a bit of spring and happiness in our car -- it moves and is solar powered Ah spring! It’s here and that makes me so happy. It’s still cold and damp here but we’re sure to take full advantage when the sun comes out so, of course, I took many pics on our walks or trips to parks. But first, I finally made a trip to our local raw vegan store. It’s local in that’s in the next town to mine, however, it’s in the boonies of said neighboring town. And now, they’ve sold their store to another raw foodie who will move the store even further out in the boonies of the next neighboring town. I doubt I’ll be making the trek out there so online shopping or random finds nearby from now on. Bummer. Anyway, I went there on their last day open before moving. This pic doesn’t show everything I bought, in fact, I have a better pic with more items included but couldn't resist this one because it shows someone’s paws sneaking in…ha ha! Now onto spring…I’ll warn you, this will be a pictur...

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Spring that is. My belly-achin' (as my mom would say) paid off. We had a gor-jus spring day today. YS2 and I took an extra long walk it was so nice. Keep 'em coming Mother Nature! A couple of beauty shots from our walk: I took more pics of different flowers but they're all blurry. It's hard taking pictures when holding a toddler! Where we were I couldn't put him down without fear of him running off. So two snapshots are all you get. I think they're pretty even if they're from the same type of plant (a holly-type bush). image source So the other day I received a case of POM Wonderful . Prior to now, I had never tried it; one of those I always passed by. I actually meant to make something that involved POM juice but never did as we just kept grabbing a new bottle to drink. Tasty! Its tartness reminds me of cranberry or lingonberry juice but it's sweet too. I like sweet-tart juices. I'd buy it again but it's not something I have to stock...

Hey! How was your weekend? As usual, mine was TOO SHORT! Weekends will always be too short. I’m wondering if my complaining of the cold, gross weather on Saturday was enough to turn things around on Sunday. Okay, it wasn’t exactly warm but it was warm er . I even saw the sun! Such a welcome sight. Because it was actually turning into a nice day we went for a family walk. Spotted some daffodils along the way which seem to epitomize spring dontchya think? YS2 got to kiss a friendly pug a few times too. Sorry no pic but it was super cute. If he could, he’d kiss every dog and cat he saw. I know I've said that before but I like to repeat myself sometimes. :) I finally worked on my herb garden. Got the planter box filled up and ready to go but haven't quite decided what to plant in it. Since I have planter bags I used those for some of my herbs and some of the starts I had picked up I think would be better at the garden so that leaves the cedar box. I might still do herbs b...

Here it is April 14th, day before Tax Day (did you get yours in? I am today!) and it's cloudy, a little damp and a wee bit too cold. It's supposed to be a high of 49 degrees today. ?!?!?!?! When is spring going to show up? Seriously, this is annoying. I feel a little better when I hear some of you are still getting snow off and on but gee whiz Spring! We've been waiting ever-so patiently for your arrival here in the Pacific Northwest. We're ready. We will welcome you and cherish you. Promise. Please consider showing up to the party ASAP! Thanks. Now, onto announcing the winner of the Tropical Traditions Coconut Cream Concentrate . This winner proved you can win with only one entry ( randomly selected , of course). 17.  shannonmarie Mmmm ... I still have peanut butter on the brain. I want to dip one of those dark chocolate bars in it. Yum! Or maybe since I just ate, I'd like to try a non-food-related item, such as those coconut lip balms. Something tells me th...

Howdy kids! Hopefully, you had a good weekend. As usual, it wasn’t long enough but my weekend was good. Not too busy which was nice. Saturday we had wacko typical spring weather where we had rain squalls throughout the day so in between we had some sun breaks and even hail. Sunday’s weather was better. Sorta. It didn’t rain, if that counts. It was cloudy, a little breezy at times, and cold. We spent a few hours at the community garden . I didn’t do much there other than get my ego stroked from people telling me how smart YS2 is and chase after him everywhere! He’s a quick one that little guy. We met hubby’s brother, Matt, there. Caleb is enamored with Matt. In fact, the day before all during dinner, he kept saying “Ma’h!” (said like Matt but without the T – a hard short H sound instead). We took this as a hint to call Matt and invite him out to the garden. I’m sure you wanted to know all that… Did you know that Sam is on the community garden board again? He took last ...