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Welcome to July 2026 here on the site! Our very polite Emjay wishes you very happy summer or winter month of fun! Writing stats!  I wrote 36,443 words on the site, 7,701 words in the hair care Zoom workshop, and 33,027 for the e-book of the month, Panthenol: A love story, for a total of … Read more

You asked for it, Raymond figured it out! We now have an email newsletter that’ll send you a summary of the last week’s posts every Friday morning so you can keep more up-to-date with what’s happening around here! Woo hoo! Sign up for the newsletter here!  To unsubscribe, there’ll be a little “unsubscribe” at the … Read more

May was a lovely month. Spring has sprung around here – the wildflowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing, and the corn across the street in the field is growing like crazy. Emjay is settling in around here, making our house her home. She’s such a cutie pie – she wakes me up in the … Read more

I’m trying to decide the topic for our next Zoom workshop on Sunday, June 14, 2026, at noon PDT (Vancouver, Canada time), and I need your help! I’ve been choosing the topics based on your interest, the ingredients I have or what’s easily available around the world, or what I need to make for my … Read more

Woo hoo! Welcome to May 2026! We’ve hard a hard spring so far. We unexpectedly lost our little Sasja dog in early March, which was so far beyond devastating, I’m not going to share more with you lest you become very depressed. A neighbour noticed Raymond was going for walks on his own, and when … Read more