Plant a Pretty Patch

By: Chrysa Smith Despite the runny nose and sneezing, this is my favorite time of year. Because now that the weather has improved I can spend time out in my yard planting and admiring my garden. Several years back, when the economy brought us some success, we turned our attention to our boring backyard. We hired a landscape designer to install a hot tub, deck and surrounding landscape that brought us some year-round [...]

2018-10-30T09:43:00-04:00April 24th, 2014|0 Comments

Passages

By: Mary Fran Bontempo [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] Bontempo grandparents, Marie and Dante, and some of the grandkids, Christmas, 2013.   If you're a regular reader, you may have noticed we were a little light on content last week at NRFGP. A re-run from me on Tuesday, nothing fun on hump day [...]

2018-10-30T09:43:02-04:00April 22nd, 2014|1 Comment

Don’t Drink the Elderberry Wine!

By: Chrysa Smith How do you make two spinsters from the 40's relevant in 2014? You remake them, which is just what the producers did in the latest version of Arsenic and Old Lace. Truth be told, I wasn't too excited about going to see the old show. Well, maybe if Cary Grant was still around. But I've been there, seen that. However, it was one of the shows in the theater subscription [...]

2018-10-30T09:43:06-04:00April 17th, 2014|0 Comments
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