Beautiful Calling

Publisher’s Blurb “When Rachel Balducci looks for material for her writing, she doesn’t have to look far. Her subject matter can be found climbing through the window, hanging on to the edge of the roof, and rummaging through the refrigerator. Here she chronicles the exuberant, awesome life of boys through bizarre conversations overheard, unbelievable rules [...]

Nana plays hockey with John I don’t always get to writing as much down as I would like in their baby books. I thought I would {try} add a bi-monthly post, entitled Tiny Tidbits, to my site as a journal. Perhaps they will make you smile too. (I always loved the little stories in Readers [...]

View Full Album "We Sell Dirt Cheap"- Really! I’m not a landscaper by any stretch of the imagination however, this year we are building a vegetable garden. I needed about 3 yards (approx. 2300 liters) of triple mix or garden dirt to do it.  I looked into buying it buy the bag at the store [...]

Thank you to all who enter giveaways at Beautiful Calling! Without you, these would not be possible. I think I will have all giveaways end at the end of the month so I can keep track better! This single post is great! Congratulations to our winners. Please contact me within a week otherwise a new [...]

  Julian Cohen Name:  Carcharodon carcharias, also known as great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a large lamniform shark Location: Coastal surface waters in all major oceans Size: 15 ft (4.6 m) to more than 20 ft (6 m) Weight: 5,000 lbs (2,268 kg) or more Lifespan: 30 to over 100 [...]

Photo by autopaattie I’m Inadequate Christian, wife, mother, blogger, happy, optimistic, friendly, thankful… If asked to describe myself in one word, I might use any of those words because they are all true. But in my heart of hearts, if I needed to choose one word to describe myself it would be inadequate. As a [...]

Photo by Bookgrl Monday morning {as usual}, I am putting things back in order after the weekend. I do very little on the weekends; usually only the essentials. I also have a Bunwich order to prepare and then I am heading to Dragonfly Landscape to order the triple mix needed for our first ever vegetable [...]

View Full Album My Handyman hard at work. Happy Earth Day In honor of earth day last year I posted More Green = More Green $$. I had planned a clothesline but alas, the closest thing that I came to it was my homemade string from fence to swing set. It was functional, though not [...]

Source Confession Time: I don’t sift ingredients together when baking! Not even when the recipe calls for you to sift the ingredients together.  I do try and follow {most} recipes as directed but was never sold on the extra step of sifting. Did you know that using a whisk to quickly whisk your dry ingredients [...]

source Hacked! So, my website had a breach last week. Someone hacked in and put up some nefarious redirects in my footer. I am thankful for the kind reader who took the time to contact me and let me know. Also a big thanks to my wonder IT husband who took care of it right [...]