by niccolapiccola | Oct 14, 2013 | food, Quick dinner ideas, slow cooking, soups, yoga
I was a sucker for those Cabbage Patch dolls when I was kid. Even though they weren’t the prettiest or cutest dolls for that matter, I loved them anyway for their round washable faces, adoption papers, yarn ponytails, and tomboy overalls that matched my...
by niccolapiccola | Oct 9, 2013 | Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food, Quick dinner ideas, salads
My fall garden is starting to sprout and I’m excited about the eggplant seeds that I planted awhile back. It is so fun to sow the seeds and then watch them grow! It teaches me patience because I always want to pick the vegetables before they are ready to be...
by niccolapiccola | Oct 4, 2013 | animals and such, Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food, Quick dinner ideas, salads
Every afternoon between 2 and 3 p.m., I sit outside on my patio to enjoy a salad for lunch. Usually I’m swatting away flies who are trying relentlessly to annoy me, until my hummingbird friends come around, and I forget all about them. Hummingbirds have got to...
by niccolapiccola | Sep 24, 2013 | books, food, yoga
This is my new personal trainer. His name is TRX and he gives me a total body workout through suspension training, without all the yelling! Never heard of suspension training? The TRX leverages gravity and your bodyweight to perform fun and different resistant...
by niccolapiccola | Sep 22, 2013 | Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food
Happy First Day of Fall! It’s about 80 degrees here today, but I’m celebrating with pumpkin chocolate chip cookies anyway! The cookies are for my good friend Sara who had a birthday on Thursday, and we’re having a belated BBQ/party for her, with the...
