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Seminary Collection: The Exquisite Simplicity and Remarkable Complexity of the Doctrine of the Trinity
Living the Sweet Life The Art of being “Useful”
Hey my Sweet Lifers! What a fun start to a new year I have had. I have realized many things about myself over these years but one thing I had not counted on was being attributed to being useful. “Useful” used loosely and mainly referencing to being the one that gets called to “fix”...
The Sweet Life Gardner: The Foxglove
Hey my Sweet Lifers! There’s something pretty awesome about studying plants in your garden and I hope over this past year you have learned a bit more than you already knew about the history, uses and benefits of growing herbs, and vegetables in your home gardens. I have always been struck...
The Sweet Life Gardener Chives August 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! One of the easiest to grow and certainly a lovely addition to any garden is chives. They are, with reference to taste, the lightest of the onion family. They are also one of the oldest herbs as they have been cultivated for 5,000 years. Culinarily speaking there’s nothing better on...
The Sweet Life Gardener Artichoke October 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! I must say for anyone who tried to keep a garden growing during this heat wave we have had…CONGRATS! I admit I cleared the beds and prepped them for fall and perhaps even this spring. With the critters nibbling whatever they can to stay sustained in this heat I left...
Living the Sweet Life Eden Gardens October 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! Well I spent most of the tail end of my summer and into fall stomping up and down the roads all along 30A in Florida. There are so many parks and unspoiled sea lines it’s breath taking. A peaceful and preserved place for every creature great and small to live...
Sweet Life Gardener Lemon Grass November 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! Hope ya’ll are digging in and prepping those beds for some fall harvesting. I have prepped and added nutrients to all my beds and will start sprinkling some seeds over the next few weeks for radishes, beets, carrots and collards. One of my favorites to grow and use in the...
“Living the Sweet Life” Having some fun at Wisteria November 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! Oh I just love watching HGTV and my mother in law did too. Both of us have always had a knack and passion for decorating and for me, a sincere appreciation for old houses. I got the chance to spend some time in Laurel Mississippi as B and I have...
Living the Sweet Life Leaning In and Learning
Lean in and let the cultivation for knowledge begin! August 2023 Hey my Sweet Lifers! Tis the season to cultivate and learn. I smell the inside of books and spilling ink as we roll into August and see...
The Sweet Life Gardener Cilantro July 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! Boy do I love cilantro…like I use it in all meals starting with on my eggs for breakfast and in my pasta dishes and with every meat! I tried growing it over the past several years and every time I tried to it would look real nice for about two...
Living the Sweet Life The Peaceful Life July 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! I hope all of ya’ll are having a wonderful start to summer. I have been enjoying mine most thoroughly. I’ve been learning a lot about what seeds to sow and when to do so in the flower garden and watching things sprout up and grow has been quite satisfying. The...
Living the Sweet Life How sweet it is to be loved by you!
Hey my Sweet Lifers! Well, it’s hard to believe but the studio is celebrating it’s 25th year this month! Kinda crazy right?! I thought so too, but when I look back on everything we have captured it all started to seem very real. The years have flown by and my littles are either all...
The Sweet Life Gardener Catnip
Hey my Sweet Lifers! There’s one herb in my garden that is appreciated more than any other by my sweet life cats and it is of course, catnip. I planted a small amount of it at the edge of the steps a few years back and now it is a huge plant that brings...
The Sweet Life Gardener Aloe Vera May 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! About ten years ago a neighbor asked me if I would like some aloe vera for my garden. I was barely wet under the ears with my gardening skills and I planted the tiny little things under a tree out in what is now the Sweet Life Garden. Over the...
Living the Sweet Life “Blue, Silver and Gold” May 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! First of this year I was scrolling my social feed and a painting struck my eye. It was done by an artist who I have admired and am friends with and something about it spoke immediately to me. Something that can be interpreted as a feeling that it must be...
Living the Sweet Life I’m one of “those” people April 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! I was recently having a conversation with one of my dear friends and she asked me to go to a party. Well she “sort of” asked actually. Our conversation went like this. My friend started off by stating that she wanted to have a party and she wanted me to...
The Sweet Life Gardener The Glorious Dandelion April 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! Recently, I saw a post from a dear friend regarding a perished bee having fallen prey to the hand of an unscrupulous person who thought it swell to put pesticides on their dandelions. Dandelions are not weeds! In the spring, they are some of the first flowers to feed the...
Living the Sweet Life Joseph Theodore has arrived! March 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! If you ever thought you were the one to choose your fur babies let me just tell you they choose you. Recently, I went out to bring in my girls, Sasha and Angela for the night; and each time I called their names I heard a loud “meeeeeow!” in response...
The Sweet Life Gardener Garlic March 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! I don’t think there’s anyone except my great Aunt Melda Lee that doesn’t like garlic. I shared a recipe with her years ago for my collards and I had barely gotten garlic out of my mouth as one of the ingredients when she twisted up her face and grimaced! I...
Living the Sweet Life Let’s Go Flying February 2023
Hey my Sweet Lifers! On a rather brisk day in February back in 1976 I received a bike for my birthday. I remember wondering as I wobbled on the seat and with hands shaking held on tight to the handlebars, if I would ever not be afraid of getting up on that contraption! A...