Category Archives: Food

What a great day

I’ve been slow to blog this holiday season but it’s because we’ve been having such a nice time. There have been parties and lunches and dinners and music and it’s all been great. Christmas Day itself was just the perfect day. Rick and Liza and I all slept in until 9:30 and had a leisurely [...]

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Thanksgiving

We had a really nice Thanksgiving at our house this year which was exactly what we needed. Just Rick and I, Devon and Jenny,  Vivienne and Del. Liza was on the east coast with all my extended family having a great ole time, but we missed her here. Rick does all the cooking at our [...]

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Candy Skulls!

Yesterday Susan and I spent the day with Heather learning how to make chocolate candies. Heather has been making candies for years and showed us just how easy and fun it is. For the chocolate, there was regular chocolate, white chocolate and orange flavored, orange colored chocolate. For the molds, we had skulls, acorns, cats, [...]

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food & crafts

Knitting is always fun and yesterday was no exception. Besides the knitting and quilting and beading and sewing, we all love to cook. You really couldn’t ask for more! Lynda baked a fabulous cake out of the Simply Organic cookbook. The cake is lemon basil and it is amazing. I wouldn’t have thought basil would [...]

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Old Friends

My best friend in high school was Miss Kitty Finklea. We did everything together. We got into trouble together, saw each other through lots of teenage angst and were around for some big milestones in each others lives. After high school, we went to the same college for the first two years.  These are our [...]

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