I’m heading out to a church district meeting this afternoon and will be gone until late on Sat. If the hotel has Internet access I’ll post tomorrow, but don’t hold your breath or anything. . . .

I’ve been planting up a storm lately-and I’m still not done. We decided to experiment with a CSA share this year (which I will write on in depth soon) so I am concentrating the vegetable garden mostly on items that I want to can for the winter. My square foot garden (remember that from last… Keep Reading

This weeks Festival is held at Blogging Away Debt. There are 31 entries this week, and our host gave out 12 “awards” for such categories as “Best Use of a Pooh Bank” and “Best Frugal Way to Keep Kids Occupied During the Summer” (which unfortunately is not offered near me) and even a “Best of… Keep Reading

YEAH!!!! My birthday present from Yankee Bill arrived yesterday, and this morning he set up the new wireless router. I am now portable, which means I can watch the kids outside and blog at the same time. Ahhh, life is good. I bought it from M-Tech, which I chose because they have very helpful customer… Keep Reading

The Festival is ready over at Get Rich Slowly. This week there were 43 entries. (geez, busy week!) He has them roughly arranged into topics, and his favorites are marked with a STAR. There is lots of great stuff, but as always I will treat you with a synopsis of a few entries that particularly… Keep Reading

It will be posted over at Get Rich Slowly. I’ll do my regular roundup when it’s up. (I wasn’t thinking yesterday when I promised to do “Decorating Your Barbie Cake” today-it will be Wednesday instead).

I was thrilled when the Lynn Bowen Walker, the author of “Queen of the Castle: 52 Weeks of Encouragement for the Uninspired, Domestically Challenged or Just Plain Tired Homemaker” contacted me to read and review her book*. She took pains to tell me that although her book was on homemaking and not specifically frugality that… Keep Reading

Here we go over at Millionster. (and Juan, I never would skin you-we are nice bloggers over here on the “frugal side” who mostly believe in the old “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” adage) There are 33 entries this week (why do I have an overwhelming urge to call… Keep Reading

The Festival of Frugality was derailed yesterday due to what I assume are personal reasons over at “Millionster“, the host blog this week. He/she (sorry, not sure which) promises to have the Festival up at 10 am PST-which means if you are lucky and the kiddos are cooperative I might actually have the roundup posted… Keep Reading

OK, I know I’ve listed some other royalty free picture sites and said they were great, but I was wrong. These sites are the ones that are REALLY GREAT. I was browsing around Wikipedia and found they had an entire article on royalty free photo sites (scroll down to the bottom where it says collections)…. Keep Reading