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Vintage Children’s Books Series
Vintage Children’s Series Books Books I enjoyed reading as a child, and collect as an adult. Many of these were already “vintage” when I was reading them! How many do you remember? (Just for fun, click on the titles to be taken to fan websites for each series.) Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators Anne of Green Gables Beany Malone…
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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I had cereal and fruit, and oh yeah, eggs! for breakfast this morning. I really did! Okay, so they were cookies. Aren’t oats a cereal? And raisins are fruit! And I know the recipe called for 2 eggs! (We just won’t mention all the sugar… or the white chocolate chips.) My daughter made Oatmeal Raisin Cookies for Bible study last…
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Notes from Numbers
I mentioned in my New Year’s post that I was taking up my Bible reading again in Leviticus where I got bogged down last year. I wanted to read the Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation, but gave up and switched to the New Testament for several months. But for New Year’s I decided to try again. We’ll see…
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Helgeson Place Hotel
One of my favorite things about traveling is the serendipity of discovering unexpected “vintage” experiences along the way. Summer before last we traveled over a long “forgotten” segment of Route 66… and then last month we had the fun of “going by train”. Our trip back in time this weekend features a stay at an old-timey downtown hotel in tiny…
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Train Trip
A couple weeks ago we had a delivery to make to Seattle on a Monday. We decided to go ahead over there on Saturday and make a weekend of it. Since we had plenty of time my husband thought it would be fun to ride the Amtrak train from there to Portland on Saturday, spend the night at a hotel…
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Beulah’s Sugar Cookies
This is a family favorite going back to my childhood. My mother got the recipe from my aunt’s mother-in-law, Beulah, and she made them often when I was growing up. It makes a huge batch. If you don’t want to bake it all at once, you can form the dough into logs to freeze. Then when you’re ready to bake,…
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Banana Nut Bread
The girls and I have decided to make goody boxes to give out at Christmas time to Daddy’s co-workers and other friends. My oldest daughter loves to bake… and loves to share what she bakes, so I decided this would be a good project for us for the holidays. We plan to wrap boxes with lift-off lids and line them…
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Weekend in Seattle
We enjoyed a family getaway to Seattle last weekend in celebration of our anniversary. Lyle found a 2-bedroom suite in a hotel in downtown Seattle. We had a great view of the Space Needle from our window! On Friday afternoon, on our way in, we had to detour to Renton to visit Lyle’s favorite place to shop: Fry’s Electronic Superstore.…
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Fall Colors in the Columbia River Gorge
We took the trailer down to Oregon this past weekend for our last camping trip of the season. We stayed at Memaloose State Park in the Columbia River Gorge. The weather was cool and damp, so we didn’t do much in the way of outside activities, but I thoroughly enjoyed the fall colors! We enjoyed some down time just playing…
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Lum & Abner
One of my [many] hobbies is listening to and collecting Old Time Radio Shows. Hands down, my all-time favorite show is Lum & Abner, which ran almost daily for over 20 years. I have all the existing recorded episodes on MP3, but there are a lot of gaps of “lost shows”. When I found out that this book [of mostly…
