It has been a long time, Dear Heart and I am thrilled to have moved up to a world wide audience! This is my little blog and question and answer corner of the internet, and here we can chat about home keeping, proper entertaining, cooking and well, life. I adore gardens, Hon, but I…

Hello Dear Heart! How is your summer coming along? For me, it has been the essence of wonder. I am in the Upper Midwest for the summer and have been spending quality time along the lake shore. It is simply wondrous how, on the hottest…

Hi Honies! Hello Dear Heart! I do hope you are well and happy. I’m so glad to have the opportunity for us to chat and to continue our discussion about the building blocks of a successful food dish. The past few months have been…

Hi Dearests! Soon autumn will be upon us and none too soon for dear Rose. Here, in the Upper Midwest, it was a beastly hot summer and so terribly dry that I was fully expecting my grape vines on the garden fence to completely…

Hi Dear Hearts! How wonderful it is to chat with you again! June was the most interesting month of the year so far. Here, in the Upper Midwest, there are so many festivals and events each weekend that I can barely think…

Hi Honies! I have returned to my dear Midwest home this month and the weather is simple luscious, if not entirely temperamental! One day it is warm enough to roast vegetables on the grill without a fire and the next it is one of those…

Hi Dear Heart, is it almost May already?? I can hardly believe how fast this season has passed and soon it will be time to return to my summer home in the Midwest. I hope you are well, Hon. Dear Old Rose is doing…

Hello Dear Heart! I am still up in the Midwest enjoying the gorgeous autumn leaves and end-of-the season farmer’s markets, which is wonderful beyond words. We haven’t yet had frost and the gardens are still producing a surprisingarray of vegetables. And, Hon, the…

Hi Honey! The whirlwind of holidays is marvelous, but draining. I’m at my winter home and having the time of my life! It is High Season here in Palm Beach and there are so many Charity Balls and Cotillions that I am…

Hi Honey! Oh, my, it is spring all over! The flowers are blooming and ole’ Rose is feeling just a teeny-weeny bit of the seasonal fever. It’s just luscious, you know. My dear friend Claire (she is doing fine, thank…