Wednesday, March 10, 2010

title pic Power outage

Posted by Janice on February 5, 2010

I absolutely love living in rural Virginia.  I love looking out from my living room window at the cows, sheep, and horses grazing in the fields across the street.  I love how quiet the nights are, and how easily I can see the stars because the is virtually no light pollution.  But let me tell [...]

title pic Starting a new business

Posted by Janice on January 17, 2010

My husband has been encouraging me to start my own business. He’s heard that there are a lot of business grantsavailable for women entrepreneurs. It’s nice to know that he has such confidence in me!  The thing is, I’ve got so many different skills, talents and interests that it is hard for me to pick [...]

title pic I love cookies

Posted by Janice on December 30, 2009

I love to give unique gift baskets to people for presents.  I like to find out what their interests are and then try to come up with a gift basket full of goodies that are related to their interests.  For example, if it is a woman who loves to experiment with colognes I might give her [...]

title pic Rick’s off to Dallas

Posted by Janice on December 27, 2009

I was sad to see Rick drive off in his Chevrolet Silverado two weeks ago.  I was really hoping he would stay through the holidays, but he was anxious to get to Texas to find a good job.  He said that lots of people told him that Dallas was the place to go for a good [...]

title pic Don’t you just love the Internet?

Posted by Janice on December 17, 2009

Susan called me last night all in a panic.  She had decided to drive her  Toyota Corolla to Chicago for a week’s vacation to see her family.  As luck would have it (or should I say as bad luck would have it?) the water pump broke and she didn’t know where to go to get her car fixed.  [...]