This Christmas I baked two organic chickens for our special dinner. I had them in the freezer, and with The Patriarch out of work, you use what you have! Our Christmas dinner has always been one of variety. Our Thanksgiving menu is always the same, but Christmas we never have what we had at Thanksgiving! [...]
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We spent Thanksgiving with dear friends on the peninsula. On our way home we stopped at Costco. I don’t think I have been to Costco right after Thanksgiving… ever! I didn’t even know they had a cookbook!! Well I got this year’s and it has some very interesting ideas… This is actually a very good [...]
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This is my first product-provided review. I was sent a box of Udi’s Gluten free items and asked to come up with any holiday or entertaining ideas. My box arrived on 12-12-12…. and it was bigger than I thought it would be! Here is what I got in my box: Double Chocolate Muffins, Snicker-doodles, Vanilla [...]
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Do you do any hand embroidery, needlepoint or crewel work? Is sewing your forte? Have you tried macrame, tatting, weaving or making lace? Can you crochet or knit? My love of hand needle arts began with some of the books I read as a young girl. Victorian & Colonial girls learning embroidery and making samplers [...]
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It is yet another hot day here in the Pacific Northwest. OK, hot for us. We moss-covered folks are just NOT used to 80 plus degree weather… we… glisten (as they say in the south)!! Another day for yet another EASY way to get my waist-length, naturally curly hair off of my back. Can you [...]
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Today is a momentous day. Yes, back in 1944 was the invasion of Normandy, France by the allied troops. It is referred to as ‘D-Day’. 43 years later there was another momentous day on June 6th. It was the day of my marriage to The Patriarch. Yes, that makes today our 25th Wedding Anniversary! I [...]
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The fourth item on my resolution list is: #4 More Attentive to my Husband. The Patriarch is undemanding. But I KNOW the cluttered house bugs him, though he doesn’t say a lot about it. I want to get it all ship shape to please him. He’s been pleased with what I have done so far!! [...]
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[youtube =http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/842GeFLrmOU?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0] Click here to view more details I don’t know about you… but I have been so tired lately. Not just a physical tired, but a battle-weary, need a daily bit of encouragement kind of tired. The soul-weary and emotionally worn out kind of tired. Though I do know others who are also stay-at-home [...]
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Saw this and HAD to let you all know ASAP!! You can get the above book is free if you order her budget book: Or other details here: Money Saving Mom This is free ONLY until January 9th… so don’t delay! I am still working on my New Year’s Resolutions post… and both of these [...]
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