This is how I use up a bag of chickpeas/garbanzo beans SO fast for cheap quick(especially if the pressure cooker is involved) meal and snack prep. After soaking and cooking, part of them get tossed into

Since we moved into a duplex without the back yard, I've been forced to experiment and try getting more creative with my garden. A lot has failed so far. We had things looking so good, then suddenly die

So I loooooved being back in Fort Worth for a week or so, getting to see some of the things that have changed over the past few years is interesting. I miss it all so much. One day I wanted to go downtown,

As I'm working on writing my first post back after the trip, finallllly.... I've been going through my pictures and thinking about the photo challenges I missed. It's odd how even though I wasn't here,

(with no title) . This letter is a tight knit family of embers in my hand . Reading it, like looking into the sun sears holes through retinas . It may be crisp paper but I'm the one being torn to bits

All right, in honor of camping before I go on my trip here's a post about how we(mainly my brother in law did the hard work, while I helped find the materials I had for ideas) built our own grill one year.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! " - Lewis Carroll Mistake             made lessons              hard to learn sitting in           my chair with leg

It wasn't just that the lights went out nor the sudden sound marking their death. . It wasn't really fear of darkness or the unknown standing barely beyond sight's reaching, waiting for the chance to move

Lovers like sea sons come and go waking up (curled) in bed left alone is nothing new, it soon gets old. . Newborn rosebuds pucker outside my window sweet peeping stalkers windblown. They dance and dreams

Veggie Burgers Gone Simple... super super simple. The easiest veggie burgers I've ever made. Just a few ingredients and no mixing or precooking beans(after presoaking) etc etc in different pans required

. I like the feeling of being a w o m a n, those moments when you're walking along obliviousor standing up tall with that feminine power creating a warm aura that surrounds your bodyand all of a sudden

. My name is on a button and it's being pushed and screaming red and her ears are steaming now. . I'm a button one of Her Top Buttons but she doesn't even know me, she doesn't care to either and I haven't

- Please beware whenstroking, an angelfor there're hornshidden beyond, undertheir gorgeous locksand that's how comeso many, often, cutthemselves uponangel's hair.-Oh, and careful howwell that rose smellsthe

My second entry for the city theme photo challenge, this is a corner in New Orleans I loved that street lamp and the drugstore with the lights. You can see the trollie tracks more clearly in the color

This is from our Main Street Art Festival that happens every spring in Fort Worth, they shut down traffic for several streets and all kinds of artists from everywhere in the country come to set up their

At least once a year my family tries to come down to the area our great grandparents farms were and visit the old land and graveyards. It used to always be something we did with my grandmother on Memorial

This is a great way to use up a lot of things at once that otherwise may not be eaten, and it makes a perfect sweet dessert or breakfast. True comfort food, while being thrifty too! The other night I was

Oh, I was SOOOO right about how much time actually having a stove to cook on would give me in the mornings. I got up later than usual, took the dogs out and came back in with less than an hour before his

(or somesuch non freakiness) Everything I don't do I watch get done by itself or come happen to me. But where's the point, what's so sharp about it anyway points are all too well rounded to be caught,

I love these challenges because they remind me of old school writer group prompts we did weekly. So glad for steemians giving such inspirations to each other and sharing now! I see the rules say you can