The Inconsequential Blogger

Along with some other gifts, my son presented me with this wonderful-smelling bouquet for my birthday. The roses are from two of the three r...

Off to celebrate!

Such as it is. I mean, my gardens weren't huge successes this year, but even saying that, we've been enjoyng several things from the...

... are scenting my kitchen. I've been gathering culinary herbs from the garden and hanging them to dry: sweet basil, sage, and sweet ma...

... of getting a spinning wheel. If this calming video doesn't sway me, I don't know what will. If you want to know what the beautif...

I haven't even finished this book yet, but I'm definitely recommending it. Maybe it's because my forbears lived lives like this...

...was taken during our vacation out west. It's of stormy, late-July, evening skies over Petrified Forest National Park, AZ.

Last night I threw some things from the garden together in a pan, cooked them up, added some ground turkey, and we had it for dinner. I don...

I've been feeling a little under the weather, but luckily I have a tea for that. Yesterday I woke up feeling horrible with a cold or som...

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Here's the last set of pictures from our excursion out west. What's a western themed vacation without cacti? We drove through Saguar...

This will be my 2nd to last post about my vacation - promise! But if you want to see some really nice pictures, you can visit the site where...

And that is officially the last major road trip I will ever go participate in. Not because it wasn't fun and we didn't get along in...

If you would like to get a taste of what we've been experiencing, my son is keeping a travel blog. He's posted great pictures along ...

If you're interested, my son has a travel blog documenting our trip out west with pictures and commentary. Click here to visit his blog...

We'll be gone for a couple of weeks or so. Heading out west to visit family and see the sights. Texas, New Mexico, and (possibly) Arizon...

Continuing my experiment , I have now self-published a novella as an ebook through Amazon.com: A couple of months ago I self-published a sh...

I picked some of the first beans from the garden today. The purple ones are a variety called Red Swan, and the stripy ones are a variety cal...

Japanese beetles have begun to invade our new rosebush plantings. My son is learning the hard way that roses can be a lot of work. I did som...

We've been eating a lot of chard lately. We have lots in the garden, along with red lettuce. We put them together in salads and they...