JudyAnn Lorenz's (vajudy) Blog

Have you seen that commercial asking you to have paperless billing and telling you how much a tree contributes to cleaner air?I'm hoping my abstract growing this year has done some too.  I have a trellis that lost its roses (I am toxic to roses). This year we debated putting a gourd, pumpkin or w...

Doing the 30 min a day thing and reading while I eat lunch have helped me work my way through two Anne Bronte books this spring/summer.  The bigger collection is in one book with thin pages, like Bible paper.  I'm not sure I want it in the peanut butter territory, but night stand reading will wor...

I have, for years, endured the row of turnips. I recommended they be considered a good plow-down for our heavy, clay soils, if they even germinated. The ones I had tried tasted like cabbage cores. As long as we had peanut butter and celery, someone else could have the turnips.   Turnips are tasty...

Online Networking for Newbies was released just this week by Angela Smith of Accu-Assist. Angela is an active moderator on professional forums for virtual assistants and a successful virtual assistant herself. Based in the Midwest, USA, she has a varied range of clients, but is specifically inter...

I've written about Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead  in Overland Park, KS before, but that was when I only knew about it from information the Internet. We had an opportunity to visit in June and it is absolutely and immeasurably better than the publicity indicated.There are many pens of farm anim...

My cousin's family came to our house for the 4th.  We haven't been able, over the years to spend much time with her family, so we were really excited.  RL got so wound up when I told him they were coming that he just had to leave the office and go for a drive!   He found a produce stand with fres...