
This year we spent over $50 on seeds for the garden with most of them being vegetables but some flowers as well. My frugal nature always questions purchases like this and I wondered why we need to be spending so much when seeds naturally occur in the vegetables and flowers we grow. Some of the things in …
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I have had requests to include more of my eating plan for the Geocache Diet, and in particular, recipes. I have hesitated to post recipes in the past because this is not what this site is all about but when I thought about it for a while I decided that a few recipes would be a …
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A little while back we had a family outing to a very nice beach just North of where we live. It was one nice day in all the terrible rainy weather we had been having, so we thought we better take advantage and do something outside. The grandparents happened to be in town with their trailer and were accompanied …
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So what is a typical day on the geocache diet? This is a challenge after all and the best challenges always have crazy itineraries and require remarkable feats of will and desire. My normal day goes something like:
Wake up somewhere between 5am and 6am depending on how tired I was the night before
Work in the office
Have breakfast
Look …
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Recently we have been discussing the trend towards coddled kids and helicopter parenting and it is probably no surprise if you have read our blogs that we wish our kids to be independent and to appreciate experience over material goods. I suggested in a previous blog that I felt that one of the reasons this trend towards …
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Summer has arrived and our garden is in full flower. The garden gradually starts blooming and before you know it is a sea of colour. I was impressed with the way the garden looked when I took these “Early Spring Photos”but the garden has progressed even more since then. Our beds are just packed with plants that it almost looks like …
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Tuesday was our Father’s Day do-over and it went a lot better the second time around.
I got to choose our activity on Father’s Day and it was no surprise to anyone that I chose to take the family geocaching. I had the whole day arranged and it would start after breakfast for a morning walk and geocache hiding spree. After …
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If I had my way we would get rid of 90% of the excess stuff we have around the house. This is the reason why I am not allowed to do spring cleaning alone in our house. Lisa comes from a long line of pack-rats and she can see value in almost anything. Luckily we are both pretty …
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