Today we talk about words you might hear with your workout buddy.

In case the thought of canning anything just scared you with thoughts of botulism invading your home, here are a few basics about the canning process.

Canning is great if you're concerned about what is going into your food. Since you're in control of the canning process you know what ingredients are going in, you know how fresh everything is, and you're making food without all the additives commonly found in canned foods.

Keep your body guessing and let's break those plateaus.

This time of year is great for strawberries. I love to go and pick my own and then turn them into jam. This site is a great resource for pick your own orchards in your area and for recipes.

The infamous pull-up. If you are not doing pull-ups in your routine, you should. For some people just one pull-up is difficult, but it is by far the best back and arms workout you could do. Let's let's take a look at the many variations.

If you’re anything like me your front yard is in a sad state after last year’s drought and hot summer. If you’re even more like me you’re secretly happy about the rain and that it has caused so many weeds to grow. Because you know, if you cut weeds down they look like grass. At least this is what you tell yourself until they sprout up like crazy within a few days and go back to looking like weeds.

Getting started in composting is easy. I had wanted to start a compost pile for awhile. When I first mentioned it to my husband John his main thought was, "I don't want a big, smelly pile of trash in the backyard." We also didn't want the dogs climbing around in it. After a bit of research I decided to container compost. I figured, I've already done the container garden, why not move on to container composting? I started with a big trash can I bought at a box retailer for about 10 dollars. I drilled holes throughout to allow lots of air flow.

Water and why you need more.

Interested in vegetable gardening, but not sure where to start? Why not start small with one or two plants in containers?

I decided to go the container route for my first year of gardening. I am the previous owner of a very black thumb and I wanted to make sure I could keep my plants alive before I started putting them in the ground.

This week more "gymguistics," where we will cover some of the basic terminology found at the gym. Today we'll look at more basic terms about the objects found around the gym.