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Our Easter feast
We have a rather non-traditional Easter feast. We gave up several years ago on having a big, formal, sit-down meal. Not fun for anyone. Too many small children. And too much work. So this year we went with sliced meat … Continue reading
New duffel bag
Last night I tweaked my duffel bag pattern, but I’m not sure I improved it. I thought stitching the end seams to the outside would make it look neater, but now I’m not sure. What do you think? I stitched … Continue reading
Really good, healthy carrot cake muffins
I had printed a recipe for carrot cake muffins a week or so ago from the Hodgson Mill web site. I had some baby carrots in the frig that needed to be used in something. Here’s the baked muffins. And here … Continue reading
What we ate this week
I’m realizing that I haven’t been posting my cooking experiments for this week. There haven’t been any big winners, but one does stand out. Last night I made a Broccoli Casserole with Rice and Cheese from About.com. It was the … Continue reading
Home Sweet Home
My hubby wanted some photos of our house to show to a friend on Sunday. Rather than dig through the photo albums, I went out and took some more shots. The sun was low this afternoon, just right for photos. … Continue reading
New Year’s Eve
2008_12_28 – Xmas 008.JPG- Lady for Vox Here's one of my favorite Christmas photos. Lady enjoying a bit of sunshine and peace and quite before we were invaded by a hoard of relatives. I have spent a good deal of … Continue reading
Saturday in the country
2008_08_09 -Flash for Photo Quest 060.JPG – petunia for Vox I usually avoid flash photography like the plague, so this week's Photo Quest challenge to shot with flash was a real challenge. I have been working on it for two … Continue reading
More crab apple jelly
2008_08_08 – jelly in the window 005.JPG – Crab Apple Jelly Here's the crab apple jelly that I made this morning. It is almost clear enough to see through. Our first project this morning was picking apples. My hubby's brother … Continue reading
Making crab apple jelly
2008_08_07 – crabapple jelly, etc 002.JPG – Jelly in the Window Here's today's batch of crab apple jelly cooling on the window sill. As you can tell, I put jelly in whatever leftover jar I can find. I would like … Continue reading
