Here we are at the start of a new calendar year, 2021- (another) year of exceptional opportunity. Just as 2020 was an incredibly fantastic year, the best year in recent times, 2021 is poised to be even more fantastic of a year! Yes, 2020 had its share of uncertainty and unexpected surprises, but in the…
You found it! Thank you for stopping by. As I’m sure you have noticed, EnjoyTimeCooking.com is still under development. I have had this domain registered but parked for quite some time. The time has come to get it up and running and get some great content over here. Currently I have been posting some of…
Last year I made two home-made compost bins out of old Rubbermaid containers. The original post about these bins can be found here. While those compost bins worked pretty well, they didn’t work quick enough (for my liking) or net enough of the much-needed end product. With so many landscape beds in rough shape I can use all of…
It’s a partly cloudy 34.5 degrees on this beautiful snow-covered morning. One day after a nice 5-6 inch blanket of fresh snow the melt has begun (again). Even though March is just around the corner I haven’t been super-motivated to get the garden seeds started. Besides the lengthening days, spring just doesn’t feel that near. This all changes today! A few weeks…
I LOVE blueberry jam! For several years I’ve wanted to try making my own but never tried- until now. Every year when fresh blueberries are in season I’ll buy ten pounds of fresh Michigan blueberries. In past years I’ve either eaten them fresh or froze them for the long-cold winter. This year is different. Not only have I dehydrated them…
With all of the garden and landscape preparation that’s been going on around here lately I figured it was only fair that we plant something for kitty to enjoy. While at the local hardware store a few weeks ago I picked up some Livingston Seed Co. “Cat Grass”. Come to find out, it’s just Triticum aestivum, also known as common wheat…
We have recently expanded our container garden to include some strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Last year I planted a couple of two-year-old blueberry plants, only to have them flounder through the summer and get nearly destroyed by winter-starved bunnies. These both appear to have made it through the winter alive. I’ve transplanted them into containers and…
This morning I posted my first YouTube video. It’s a gear review of DartMaster’s Solo series dart case. Short video that was created primarily as a proof of concept (POC) for some other video ideas I have. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgsqleAzSk&hl=en&fs=1&]
The warm weather has passed and the cold midwestern Autumn has returned. The outside temperature has climbed to a balmy 39F. What a perfect morning for a fire in the hearth.
In September we had six trees taken down which provided a lot of firewood for the wood burning fireplace in our family room and the outdoor copper fire pit on our patio. Thanks to a rented log splitter I was able to get the majority of the wood split. I ended up with roughly five…