I love olives of all kinds, black and green. I love olives stuffed with pimentos or garlic or almonds or even blue cheese. But these olive...

For my birthday, Richard and I headed to Knox Fine Dining, a restaurant in Moose Creek, Ontario, about a 15 minute drive from home.  I...

My friend Michelle's father is 90 years young this week! In his younger days, he was a concrete specialist --the first dam he worked...

I have so many lupins and decided to make a large bouquet of them and enjoy it on my front walkway. Why not?

 Over the weekend, Richard and I headed to L'Orignal to the old jail. It's no longer a working prison, but a museum. And guess...

Two of my three cats, Oreo and Cookie, are pretty adventuresome and really want to be in the great outdoors. Unfortunately, it's just...

I cut out butterflies from rolled fondant and decorated them with food colouring and then wanted them to dry as if they were flying. Probl...

Sam, who collected my wild bee swarm last year (click here to see them!), was back again this year but this time he put a bait hive up on ...

I put together two old footstools of varying height to serve as a sort of mini-staircase for Nutmeg who has been having trouble climbing i...

Our tiny town of Dunvegan had a "Come Meet Your Neighbours" event over the weekend.  And they asked me to make a cake for the oc...

In the cool weather, Nutmeg usually burrows in near my hip. Or sits right on my hip. Now that the warmer weather has arrived, she shares ...

The phone rang for Richard in the middle of the night, or at least 11:30 p.m. which seemed almost like the middle of the night, saying the...

An unplanned power outage lasting 5 hours last weekend meant my roast beef dinner with potatoes and garden asparagus turned into a barbecu...

Over at Knatolee's World , my namesake duck, Ronna-duck is having her ducklings! Can you have ducklings? Okay, so Ronna-duck...