Author: julesfarm@yahoo.com

Hello Fall. It’s nice to see you. I love your cooler temps and the beautiful colors you bring to Kansas City. I love the smells your season brings be it an outside fire or all things pumpkin spice. I love this tree just up the street. It’s always the first tree I notice changing colors in the neighborhood. I have continued to eat whole foods and posted my second half of September but was fighting a few blog issues with my post. If you missed it you can now check out my blog post for Day 16-30, Whole Foods. I kept the whole month pretty simple as it reminds me that eating this way is not difficult after you discover what simple meals and staples works best. This year, I love that the fall season means that we are that much closer to this particular year being over. There. I […]

Congratulations to Kim who seems to love my little Vintage Travel Trailer and kebobs!! Love me a kebob too Kim! After reading through all of the comments, it looks like a lot of other readers enjoy them as well! I’m going to add that to the weekends menu. Yum! “Love your Effy!My favorite thing to grill is kebobs.” Kim Thank you all for your comments and yummy ideas of different things to toss on the grill! I saw some great suggestions and I plan to grill many of them! Winner was randomly selected through “Pick Giveaway Winner”, a plugin offered by WordPress. Have a great weekend! “love the life you live, live the life you love”

(Edit: I posted a blog today, then lost the original post and things went all wonky on me!) I’ve been over here eating whole foods for several days now and I thought I’d post the first 15 days. Besides, who wants to read a post with 30 days of food?? Not me! You may not even want to read 15 days of food, but here it is! But first, did you enter the drawing for the BBQ Box? You can find all of the details in my End of Summer Give Away post. Entries will be accepted up until midnight tonight! Winner announced in a blog post tomorrow morning at 8:00 am CT. Good Luck! I am loving all of your BBQ ideas!! Mike and I did a Whole30 (30 days of whole foods and very little processed) for the first time in October, 2015. We both felt great after […]

Well……while I feel mentally great about my decision to eat whole foods for 30 days, my body doesn’t feel much different. A little maybe, but not much. Eating this way doesn’t feel like much of a chore and I know I’m only doing my body good, so I’ll continue through the month of October and take this a month at a time. I’ll explain more in my next post this weekend. September was filled with camping trips and organizing over here. Also, I’m now caught up on all of the doctors appointments I’d been putting off. I have clean teeth, had an all over dermatology check, I have an updated prescription for my glasses and I now have contacts!! I can see!! It did take me 3 weeks of trying daily to get my contacts in, but I finally did it! What have y’all been up to? I have a […]

I’m taking a little break from the blog this month, but I miss you all so I thought I’d do something fun! I haven’t done a Give Away here on the blog in F O R E V E R . . . . . . . I love this little corner of my world and I so appreciate EVERY ONE OF YOU for reading, commenting and hanging out here with me. Many of you have been with me for a long time and I appreciate you sticking with me through all of the ups and downs that life has tossed my way (and your way). Your support means so much to me and I hope that I’ve been able to offer you support as well. I feel very fortunate to be a WW Ambassador as they do an awesome job of making us feel appreciated for posting to Social […]

Since March I had not been to see any of my “ist”, until recently that is. My last hair cut was in March. My hair felt so damaged. I finally booked an appointment with Anne, my daughter, my cosmetologist. How many of you have been avoiding your “ist” because of Corona? I had and I decided to hit em all up! The oncologist, the gastroenterologist, the optometrist the gynecologist the dentist and next week the dermatologist. Yep, hittin em all. How about you? You seeing all of your “ist”? Fun Stuff I’ve got two camping trips planned for the month of September. My mom has been saying that she wants to camp with me since I bought Effie, so we’re going to give it a go. My mom has a birthday in September, and since camping is one of those safe things we can do, I’m celebrating my mom and […]

Yowza! When I’m not getting here regularly it means one of two things. One. Things really aren’t going well and I don’t know how to put it into words and share. Two. Life is going surprisingly well and unfortunately the blog falls to the bottom of the priority list. It’s Two. Praise the Lord. It’s Two. Life is full and good and I’m doing all I can to make each day feel as normal as possible. Now, that’s not to say I haven’t lost my sh*t a few times over the last couple of weeks with people I disagree with. All of the emotions swirling around right now with people, including myself, can bring out a nasty side. This uncertainty in what our future looks like with the virus, race relations, our countries leader, can be super stressful for all of us. It ain’t easy, I know. I have to […]