A while back I told you the story of how I’d lost contact with part of my family. I’d recently met up again with one of my missing nieces and was hopeful it was a new beginning for us. Well, things didn’t pan out with Little Munchkin. You never know what the future will bring, [...]

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Last night my friends Billie and Larry came over for dinner. I’d been promising Billie that I’d make Chicken & Dumplings for her and decided now that the temperatures were topping 110 it was the perfect time to have a big, hot pot of noodles on the stove all day. Chicken & Dumplings had come [...]

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I had some new visitors to the back yard this morning. There were two of these birds that swooped in. They are bigger than my usual House Finches and have thicker beaks. A search through my bird book and photos on the internet tell me that they are Abert’s Towhees. What I read said that [...]

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I stayed up late last night making two batches of Peanut Brittle, a batch of Oatmeal Scotchies and a batch of Chocolate Chip Cookies so that Recliner Man could take them to work today along with the 12 Christmas Cards that I made for him. He likes to share some holiday cheer with his co-workers [...]

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These are some of my husband’s aunts. These are a couple more of them. Five of the women are his mother’s sisters and one is a sister-in-law. Together they make the closest, most loving set of sisters I have ever known. They are all kind, loving and giving. They opened their hearts to me and [...]

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