Blue Moon

No, I'm not talking about the Billie Holiday, Elvis, or Grease song, or even the color of the moon. A blue moon is a rare event that won't happen again until 2015.

Pumpkins!

We are pretty much set for Halloween this year. With four pumpkins growing in the garden, we won't need to buy them to make jack-o-lanterns. We have one little plant with an already orange pumpkin growing in the back yard, and the big vine out front has three green ones.

Fair Week

The best week of our summer is hands down the week of the county fair. Games, sloppy finger food, animals, and truck pulls...who wouldn't love that? I went three days in a row to the fair and I loved each of them, but this year was truly special.

Life lessons while babysitting

We learned this fun fact courtesy of Diet Snapple.

You can't really get away from farm life, even when babysitting 3 boys in the heart of my town.

Equestrian Olympics

I love it when people say horse riding isn't a sport. If it's not a sport, then why is it in the Olympics and practiced around the world? The 2012 London Olympic Games are well underway, with all of the equestrian competitors riding hard for the biggest test of their lives.

Can't get to sleep?

My sleep schedule has been all sorts of weird, since it's summer and I'm the definition of a night owl...without the wings and hollow bones and whatnot. I tend to stay up until 3am and wake up later, as opposed to the school year when waking early is a must. Anyway, as I'm writing this at about 3:40, the idea came from trying to get to sleep half an hour ago, I researched helpful tips to get to sleep faster.