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Prepping and pouting

December 29, 2011 1 Comment

We are readying the house for the last scheduled holiday gathering. In a couple of hours eight girls and eight moms will find there way here for what is becoming an annual gathering. I’m cool with that. The youngest is making brownies. I did my duty by dragging out 16 plates and 16 glasses and [...]

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Gift tags

December 21, 2011 3 Comments
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I’m finally starting to wrap things up around here, so I’ll show you the tags I’m using this year. Green is to; red is from. Everyone is on there in one place or another. I used this program to do the search. (Be sure to print the key, too, or you’ll go bonkers looking for [...]

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The grandpuppies

October 16, 2011 2 Comments

I am so smitten. I have grandpuppies. They showed up a few weeks ago. We sat around a summer table outside and cuddled pure happiness. Of course, that wasn’t going to last. They kind of grew. Let me dig around and find a photo… The one on the left is Sophie, short for Philosophia, and [...]

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For dinner this weekend

August 12, 2011 3 Comments
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I ran across this combination from Design Sponge. It looks pretty tasty, don’t you think? I looked through the list of contents, and I’ll be able to count it up easily. I will have to look for some Sriracha chili sauce, and then I’ll go light on it for the dressing because I’m a wimp. [...]

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Double knit

July 4, 2011 2 Comments

It’s so hot here. I’d forgotten what 100+ degrees feels like from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Still, we are getting a few things done. For one, the pump in the pond is no longer sucking air thanks to one of Mom’s cousins. I was out fiddling with it for a while, but he stuck [...]

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