CYNTHIA TANNER: Moving forward with income, in these uncertain times. We have some successful side gigs, but now we need to 'grow' them or we're wasting our time and effort.

CYNTHIA TANNER: Our friends are getting out more. They're inviting us along. Whose vaccinated and who isn't? Whose masked and who isn't? Whose coughing and sneezing and touching things...? and does that matter?

JORDAN TANNER: Gardening is a constant, when you grow food. If you are not planting, weeding, chasing pests. You are trying to cook or can, all of the food that insists on being picked.

CYNTHIA TANNER: People have some truly strange past times and activities. In addition they have peculiar habits and weird ways. I am not speaking of eccentric behavior... that would be me.

JORDAN TANNER: It's important to have a good friend in your life. In celebrations and in sadness. But, the truth is... they can help get you through the day-to-day, brilliantly.

JORDAN TANNER: Speaking to people ought to be about communication. Am I wrong? Then, why do so many people just spout off and release their emotions on the wrong listeners? Couldn't they just mutter to themselves about it?!

CYNTHIA TANNER: It's kind of fun now that some harvest is coming in. What's the phrase? The fruits of our labors? Well, fruits and vegetables.

CYNTHIA TANNER: I'm told that April is a time of transition (in the garden). In the year of a global pandemic, everyday is a time of transition.

CYNTHIA TANNER: Now you Know that I have really run out of anything interesting to do... or to see... or to talk about. These are the words that came out of my mouth, this morning...'deep cleaning'. Yuck!

Jennifer: There's never any down time. I always have a to do' list, and a stack of papers, and a pile of clothes, and animals that need looking after, and then, we go around, again.