Pretty Little Songbird
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Feb 3, 2012 in Blogging, Environment, Home/Garden | 0 comments
The male Painted Bunting is a beautiful songbird with a dark blue head, red eye ring and green back. It has a red rump and undersides, and is easily identified by its distinctive colors. No wonder, this pretty little bird was once a very popular caged bird. It almost looks like it belongs to the same family as the Parakeet. Instead, the Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) is a...
Wonderful Wally and His Wonderful Birds
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Jan 27, 2012 in Blogging, Environment | 0 comments
Choosing only one of Wonderful Wally’s prize photos to share with readers is becoming more and more a challenge for Nana. Wally is out shooting birds almost every morning and sometimes makes multiple trips to nearby parks capturing birds and wildlife with his camera, honing his photography skills and improving with each outing. Thank goodness for digital; he must shoot a...
North Walk-in-Water Trek Tomorrow
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Jan 20, 2012 in Blogging, Environment, Home/Garden | 0 comments
Nana and Wonderful Wally’s together activities for this upcoming week will begin with a hike through Polk County’s North Walk-in-Water environmental lands property Saturday morning, and maybe we’ll see the new movie “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” – even though The Associated Press critic David Germain only gave it two stars.
North Walk-in-Water is east on State...
First Week of Retirement Bliss
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Jan 13, 2012 in Blogging, Home/Garden | 0 comments
Wonderful Wally and I received telephone calls from two of his out-of-state siblings to ask what we were doing our first week of retirement. His twin sister found us cleaning out the attic and organizing the garage on Monday. Things were not a lot different yesterday when his younger sister called from Wisconsin, except Wally was out photographing the eagle on Lake Morton. I...
One Last Day
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Jan 6, 2012 in Blogging, Home/Garden | 0 comments
Nana has one last day at the office of Polk County Parks and Recreation. Though I have maintained that I am not really leaving, instead that I will simply work in a different capacity from a different location – the truth is I’m outta’ there. There will be this lump in my throat and tears on my cheek as I make my final stroll through the hallway later today to bid my office...
Packing Up My Office Castle
Anasazi Beans and Elvis Bread
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Dec 23, 2011 in Blogging, Home/Garden | 0 comments
So what is it that Anasazi Beans and Elvis Bread have in common? Not a thing to my knowledge, other than both were recently prepared by Nana for the very first time. They are not intended meal companions, but were extremely good and will be prepared often henceforth in Nana’s kitchen.
Anasazi Beans were one of the few crops cultivated by the Anasazi (Native American)...
Nana Will Be Trekking
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Dec 16, 2011 in All About Breast Cancer, Blogging, Charity/Volunteer, Health/Fitness, Home/Garden, Organization | 0 comments
“Trek for a Cure” will be Nana’s mantra through January 14 as I enlist as many members as possible to join our Friends of the Parks’ team in support of the Susan G. Komen Race for Breast Cancer Cure fundraising event being held at Tiger Town Stadium.
A special team t-shirt was designed before I left last Friday for Indy. It was a whirlwind four days, including travel time,...
Say “Merry Christmas”
Fresh is Always Best!
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Dec 2, 2011 in Blogging, Home/Garden | 0 comments
I was looking for a quick and easy recipe, utilizing chicken breasts I had on hand, for an after work “eat and run” meal. My son Norm and my grandchildren, Cameron and CayLeigh, had a very narrow window as there was tree decorating to be done back at Norm’s that same evening before his flight back to Alexandria the next day.
I had a couple of days’ notice, but I had...
Sweet Success!
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Nov 25, 2011 in Blogging, Home/Garden | 0 comments
The smoked turkey recipe I found online at the Master Built website offered two “cooking time” options; but I knew our appointed grill master, my son Glen, would not want to be smoking a turkey for 9 ½ hours – the longer cooking time! The recipe suggested a 19 pound- turkey; Glen smoked a turkey weighing only10 pounds following the same directions, thus reducing the...
Smoked Turkey and Yams!
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Nov 18, 2011 in Blogging, Health/Fitness, Home/Garden | 0 comments
My younger son Glen is getting an early Christmas gift (not a surprise) from Nana and his big brother Norm – a Masterbuilt Digital Electric Smokehouse. Early because someone needs to smoke the turkey for our clan’s Thanksgiving feast and a smoker was already on Glen’s wish list. Our option would be to order a smoked turkey as we’ve done in the past from Sonny’s...
Nana’s Wheelbarrow Bog Garden
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Nov 11, 2011 in Blogging, Home/Garden | 0 comments
I was pleased to help fellow master gardener Kathleen Sabatino show the little ones attending our recent Backyard Gardener’s Festival how to make a miniature bog garden. She had done a fantastic job of putting the program together for our Dirt Day clinic at Bok Tower in September, so I knew in advance it would be an activity the kids would enjoy. The display board she created...
Edible Landscape Plants
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Nov 4, 2011 in Blogging, Home/Garden | 0 comments
Eat the leaves of a hibiscus? I was so intrigued by the exhibit on Summer Salads at our Polk County Master Gardeners’ Backyard Garden Festival and Plant Sale this past weekend that I asked a friend who called me from the plant sale area to look for two of the display suggestions – a small Cranberry Hibiscus (I got the last one) and a couple of Okinawan Spinach plants.
Although...
Backyard Gardener’s Festival is To...
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Oct 28, 2011 in Blogging, Education, Home/Garden | 0 comments
Rain or shine, Polk County Master Gardeners will hold their annual Backyard Gardener’s Festival & Plant Sale beginning at 9:00 a.m., tomorrow, Oct. 29, at the Polk County Extension Service Campus. Better known as the Bartow Ag Center to local residents, the campus is located at 1702 U.S. Highway 17 & 98 South in Bartow. You will have until 2:00 p.m. to purchase plants,...
The Nature of Health
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Oct 21, 2011 in Blogging, Environment, Health/Fitness | 0 comments
As we age, our health becomes our most important concern – above all else. In too many cases, a lifetime of abusing our bodies can make our retirement years less than enjoyable as many ailments are directly related to all the wrong things we’ve done, and sometimes still do. Excessive this and that contributes to some serious health conditions that cannot be reversed in our...
RSVP No Shows Missed Incredible Event
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Oct 14, 2011 in Charity/Volunteer, Organization | 0 comments
An Evening with Thomas Brooks & Friends
You can imagine my anxiety as I was helping Magnify Credit Union set up for last Friday’s fundraising event with “Thomas Brooks & Friends,” which they graciously and generously hosted. Four horrendous downpours throughout the day halted the stringing of lights along the boardwalk and other preparations. Rain, rain go away –...
Thomas Brooks Fundraising Event Tonight
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Oct 7, 2011 in Entertainment, Environment, Home/Garden | 0 comments
Ethel Burge would have been proud. Or so I thought until I looked up her name on the Internet. Funny how your recollection of people and events becomes cloudy over the years! I remembered correctly that she was a motivational speaker with the Dartnell Corporation and approximately when it might have been that I heard her speak. I was curious about any other details that would...
Our Parks Belong to YOU
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Sep 30, 2011 in Blogging, Environment, Home/Garden | 0 comments
Where but in America can an apartment dweller own millions and millions of acres of land? True, not exclusive ownership; and sometimes there is a minimal fee for access and use of what is referred to as our public lands. Nonetheless, of a total land area of nearly 2.3 billion acres in the United States, nearly one-third of the country belongs to its citizens – no other nation...
Christina Park Helpers
Posted by Nana’s Home and Garden by Glenda Mink on Sep 23, 2011 in Blogging, Home/Garden | 0 comments
Nana had plenty of gardening chores that needed her attention this past weekend. Instead of trimming a total of six cascading blue plumbago and shaping snow-on-the-mountain to hedge-like, Nana headed off to Christina Park to meet some willing helpers for a clean-up. Nana’s Garden could wait one more weekend.
I was anxious to talk with Annette Rising, a scout leader affiliated...
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