I didn’t have many ingredients at hand but I had strawberries, spinach and some nuts in the pantry. You are what you eat so…

Now when we travel for three or four weeks on a road trip we schedule rest days in advance. If you think about it in your normal life…

My aunt and cousin say this is their favorite martini. They solved many a problem over this drink!

Winter is a great time of cleaning the garden and preparing for the spring days to come when you never have enough time…

Few foods can I say are life changing but this recipe might just be one. My wife and I love risotto, the Italian comfort food…

Every holiday season I trot to the local dollar store to buy ornaments to put on our packages. With simple gift wrap from Sam’s and a...

Two of our dear family friends, who’s grandparents were originally from Norway, brought these delicious but very easy and amazingly...

Take a simple can of spray paint in any metallic color you’d like and spritz the leaves with gold.

The much anticipated Boots and Bow Ties 2021 Christmas Gift Guide and Favorite Things List has arrived to help you get in the holiday spirit

I’m sure I’m known as the crazy neighbor around the neighborhood because I can always be seen digging in the fields in the ditches for...

Add to cocktail shaker with ice along with a garnish of raspberries and you have a cocktail that will send you to Heaven not Hades!

My family loves potato soup but I'm always looking for a way to get more greens into our diet. This recipe is a mixture of two others and...

Our family hosted some great family friends for a pool day. We all wanted a drink that was sweet but not too sweet, alcoholic but not...

Everyone’s yard needs the evergreens to form bones and structure of the garden during the winter months. What is my favorite Evergreen...

Art and design have been my passion all my life now going on four decades, and a very simple and overlooked thing at Disney World is one...

Not a lot of people think about bulbs when they think about high summer, but a Crinum Lily (Crinum asiaticum) has to be one of my new...

My youngest son and I always have to stop by Adventureland in Walt Disney World for this chilly treat and we always make sure to buy an...

Chaste tree may be one of my new favorite plants! It looks an awful lot like a butterfly bush, but it grows to a larger size. Vitex...

Pool parties are our children’s favorite parties! Each year they look forward to hosting their school classes on the last day of school....

My friend and local author Kathryn Smith who has written many historical and biographic books about the early twentieth century and the...