Complete Your Exercise in 40 Minutes with the Jog Walk, No Gym Required

I’m the person who would rather curl up with a book (and some cookies), than get on the treadmill.  My doctors have told me that exercise is my medicine, and I need it every day.

pomegranite arials and chopped apples add color and antioxidents

Protein and Produce after 2 p.m. : the MIND Diet and Easy Dinner Menus

It is possible to be happy eating only protein and produce after 2 p.m. It just takes some planning.

Blue pulmonaria, rhubarb and forsythia fill the garden with texture and color

Making Every Garden Border a Potager: Six on Saturday 5-19-18

I’ve got basil growing in the front, along with rose bushes.  Why not? Basil looks good all season long.

5 Easy Gardening Tips You’ll Love, Because They Really Work

I wasn’t going to risk our health, or contribute to the planet’s declining health, by resorting to weed treatments.  

A bowl of vibrant, green, sugar snap peas is tasty.

Stringy Peas? How to Cook Sugar Snap Peas Like a Pro

Are you wondering why sugar snap peas are labeled “stringless,” when it seems like all you get is strings after cooking them?

It’s not the peas. It’s you. (Sorry!)

a lined up display of yellow, white, and multi-colored daffodils

Daffodils of All Shapes and Sizes for Season-long Bloom

Daffodils were my favorite flowers when I was a little girl. I couldn’t imagine anything…

A double daffodil bloom in light and dark yellow.

The May Garden: Six on Saturday 5-5-18

The cold spring set bloom time back a bit, so we are just enjoying the last of the daffodils and forsythia.

The Bullies Among Us: We’ve Lost Respect for Everyone

Why are we so ready to challenge anyone who volunteers to share their experience? 

A brick wall stretches to the garden gate

The Long Way

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, April 2009. ? © 2018 auntjoannblog.com.…

Honeysuckle "Hawkeye" bloom is pink, with bright and prominent yellow stamen.

April in the Garden, Six-on-Saturday 4-21-18

The daffodils waited to bloom, and still are being stung by repeated snowfall.  I share their “droopy-headed” resignation. 

chia seed pudding bowl with berries and violets scattered on top

Grow Your Own Edible Flowers for Health and Beauty

Edible flowers are not just for decoration, and not made of pure sugar.  These are the real deal.

A robin perches on a vine stem outside a rain covered window

Sharing Is for the Birds

Robins and many other suburban-dwelling birds repeatedly fly into windows because they interpret their reflections as other birds invading their territory.