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Say what???
Sometimes I think my husband just dares me to blog about certain things… such as a couple of weeks ago when we passed this sign while driving down the freeway… First of all… am I the only one who had never heard of “green manure”? I mean, no, I didn’t grow up on a farm, but I do consider myself…
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Vintage Clothesline
For this week’s Vintage Thingy Thursday I thought I’d show you the clothesline I blatantly copied from Confessions of an Apron Queen. (Wanna see hers? Click here.) Not everything on my clothesline is vintage… the first item is a pair of bloomers that went with a cute little outfit my daughter wore when she was little (mid-1990s)… next is the…
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Tulip Farms
We just got back from western Washington where I hosted the Sonlight booth at the Christian Heritage Homeschool Conference. The event was Thursday evening, all day Friday, and until 4:15 Saturday. I had told my husband that I wanted to visit the bulb farms in Mount Vernon (north of Seattle) if daylight allowed that evening. It was snowing off and…
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Priorities
I’ve been thinking a lot about priorities lately. Compared to many of today’s families our daily lives are really quite simple. We are not involved in very many on-going regularly-scheduled outside-the-home activities. Yet each morning there are things to be done, tasks to be accomplished. We have a never-ending to-do list, places to go, people to see. It can be…
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Dressed-to-a-Tea
Many years ago my mother received this beautiful antique chocolate set as a wedding gift from her brother and his wife. Don’t know what a chocolate set is? Well, neither did my mother. She thought it was a tea set for years. The pot is taller and narrow, and the cups are smaller than a tea set. Not sure why…
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Roasted Cauliflower
This is a recipe I read about in a magazine a few weeks ago. (I wish I could remember what magazine it was. Does it sound familiar to you?) The article explained how roasting the cauliflower at a high temperature would bring out the natural sugars and caramelize them… and that even people who don’t ordinarily like cauliflower would eat…
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Meet David!
Several weeks ago I introduced you to “Sits”… a keepsake from my husband’s childhood. This week, as part of the Vintage Thingies Thursdays meme going on at Confessions of an Apron Queen, I thought I would introduce to another of my husband’s childhood friends. This is David! Lyle’s grandma made David for him. No one seems to remember exactly when,…
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My Missionary Vase
Isn’t this a pretty vase? Or is it rightly called an urn, since it has the arms on it? I’m not really sure… but it’s the perfect size for long-stemmed roses, so that’s what I use it for when my husband brings me a wrapped bouquet. In 1996 I was awarded District Missionary President of the Year for the Kansas…
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Decora-a-Tea
This week’s theme on the Gracious Hospitali-Tea Blog-a-thon is to share ideas and pictures that incorporate tea and/or tea themes into home decor. Now, as you no doubt realize, my home is not all put together yet from our move… and my decorating is not complete. (But then, is it ever?) But here are a few pictures that go along…
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The White Sisters (Follow-up Post)
Do you remember back in January when I posted about my sisters and my aunt and I pretending to be The White Sisters? (Click here to read it, if you missed it.) It was a fun memory… and brought a lot of chuckles as we talked it over again. In our little-girl minds The White Sisters were big celebrities, so…
