by jocelyn_mitchell | Aug 15, 2022 | Small House Big Ideas
IKEA, HEMNES shoe cabinet with 2 compartments, white The IKEA website details the personal history of the founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad (from Elmtaryd, near Älmhult). He grew up amid widespread poverty during the depression of the 1930s, and his entrepreneurial...
by jocelyn_mitchell | Aug 11, 2022 | Drink
Ahhhhhh, summer! When the sunshine and temperature makes you feel like day drinking is a perfectly reasonable activity… Everyone knows the magic combination of iced tea and lemonade (as popularized by the great golfer Arnold Palmer and the Half & Half from...
by jocelyn_mitchell | Aug 7, 2022 | Drink
With the new Top Gun: Maverick movie out this summer, we decided it was important to rewatch the original 1986 Top Gun movie first! But I realized I couldn’t rewatch it… because I had somehow never watched Top Gun. In my defense, I was seven years old in 1986 so… Tom...
by jocelyn_mitchell | Jul 16, 2022 | Eat
It’s wonderful living five minutes away from a Wegmans grocery store! There are so many amazing produce options to choose, including locally grown and organic. The sheer variety of some of the produce is overwhelming: even with a couple of the regular apple options...
by jocelyn_mitchell | Jul 15, 2022 | Eat
In the midst of New England summer, it has been amazing how fresh the berries taste! The produce in the USA is so juicy and freshly picked, and biting into a strawberry is a mind-blowing revelation. But the super-sized packages in the US mean that we are often getting...
