“But Mom, I have to learn to drive in the snow sometime!” So what is your response to that question anyway? Bad timing I say. BAD timing Mr. Winter!
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This is a fairly new pub height table we recently bought for our kitchen area. I adore it. Well, until recently I did. Because, I was sickened when I put a big bowl of turkey broth after Thanksiving on a towel to cool on it. And then I removed the towel later and there was…
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Yesterday, Mr. Wonderful had the day off of work. Like the wonderful man that he is, he spent most of the day preparing for the abominable storm coming our way. People have been dreading it all week and the fear has been building. This is Oklahoma, after all, the Snow/Ice Fear Capital of the World.…
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This past weekend, Melisa called and invited me to a Girl’s lunch with her and her daughter Mariah and since both my girls were gone, another favorite young lady from our small group – Caitlyn. After much deliberation between our more refined tastebuds (note that I didn’t say “older”), and the youngsters “just give me…
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My mom-in-law sent me an e-mail today touting the various inexpensive uses of coffee filters. And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones. I thought several of these were good ideas so I thought I’d post it in my Tips N Tricks section of the blog.…
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Flash freezing. I do it all the time. Flash freezing is simply taking a food item and freezing it individually, so that when you want just one of something, the item isn’t frozen together in a huge lump with something else. For instance, do you ever buy the frozen chicken breasts that you can pull out…
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Time…does it get a bit hazy for you? Do you often find yourself with that age-old thought…”Where did the time go?” Did you wake up one day and realize a year has gone by and you can’t remember how? I’ve been thinking a lot about time these days. With two gone to college and one…
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I’m kind of embarrassed to say this. I live in Oklahoma and always thought that Shawnee Mills was in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Not so. Actually, the company has 7 facilities located …well…where the wheat grows in Oklahoma, in Arnett, Gage, Minco, Kingfisher, Okarche and Cashion. Created in 1906 by J. Loyd Ford they are still operating…
