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Ten Commandments Hike

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , , on 30 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The third annual Baden Powell Council Boy Scouts of America Ten Commandments Hike was on Friday, November 28.  This hike was open to boy scouts, girls scouts, religious and other youth groups.  The title is a bit misleading as the layout this particular year involved a bit of driving but there was still some hiking [...]

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Pumpkin Soup with Bleu Cheese and Bacon

Posted in Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , on 30 November 2008 | 1 Comment »

Let me start by saying my family gets annoyed with my soup attempts.  They do not believe that a soup course is necessary with big family meals.  This year, though, we were eating Thanksgiving dinner later – around 3:30 pm – due to work schedules.  I served the soup at 1 pm as a way [...]

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Thanksgiving, 24 years ago

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged , on 25 November 2008 | 1 Comment »

I visit Binghamton.MomsLikeMe.com on a frequent basis.  I really like some of the discussions there and have met several people in real life and they are wonderful people.  There was a question on Thanksgiving posted that gave me pause.  The question dealt with how many Thanksgiving dinners one was attending this holiday.  It took me [...]

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What American Accent Do You Have?

Posted in Just my Thoughts, tagged , on 25 November 2008 | 2 Comments »

I don’t normally take these quizzes but this one intrigued me when I saw it on Deana’s blog. I just had to find out. What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North   You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the [...]

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Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes

Posted in Family, Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , on 24 November 2008 | 5 Comments »

The only thing I truly hate about holidays is the amount of time I spend in the kitchen.  Now, at my house, this is not truly an issue as the house is small but at others, it isolates the cook.  One way I get around it is to make items in advance.  Today I made [...]

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Looks Like the Decision Is Made

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged on 22 November 2008 | 1 Comment »

Last weekend my 18 year old son went on an overnight visit to his top choice of colleges.  He had applied to four schools – SUNY Oneonta (early action), College of St Rose, York College and Duquesne University.  He was, although he admitted the campus was not his favority, really taken by the program at [...]

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Christmas Cards

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , on 22 November 2008 | 2 Comments »

I love the tradition of sending out Christmas cards.  I usually make and send out approximately 60 of them.  I have my first design done and am going to post it here.  I have to say, I really want the card itself to be a deeper green, more of a forest, but this is all [...]

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“A Great State Fair”

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged , on 22 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am a huge Rodgers & Hammerstein fan.  I love many of their musicals – actually, all would be a better word.  Imagine my surprise when my youngest came home from one of his first week’s in high school to let me know that he had signed up for stage crew and the production was [...]

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Playing Card Ornaments

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , , , on 22 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I participated in a workshop run by Donna in Florida a week ago.  The workshop was all about how to alter playing cards to make ornaments out of them. Here are two of my ornaments with more to come as soon as I get back to creating.

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Pumpkin Bread

Posted in Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , , on 22 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Back about four years ago, a friend gave me this pumpkin bread recipe that does not use eggs.  Most of my quick breads use three or four eggs and I am not a big egg person so was trying to find ways around it. I love this recipe with a good mug of cocoa in [...]

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