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42 Furniture and Fixtures in Your Kitchen – is that even possible? After all, when you exclude all the things in the kitchen’s cabinets and drawers, such as kitchen utensils, tools, gadgets, cooking implements, supplies, equipment, accessories, pantry food, refrigerated food, etc., what’s left? Just a table, a few chairs, maybe a hanging light, and some decorations, right? Well, let’s…
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Baked Sweet Potatoes with Warm Maple Drizzle and Toasted Pecans – doesn’t the title alone elicit a drool-worthy anticipation of the goodness to follow? I created this recipe for a friend’s birthday celebration. I wanted the menu to be tasty, but I’ve been on a diet for over four months now. Nothing boring would work for a birthday celebration! No…
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Clouds. Billowy, pillowy puffs of snowy white strewn across a clear blue sky. Or, adrift and alone like islands in the sky, part of an archipelago of the universe beyond our line of vision. Distant memories of lying on our backs in plush green grass staring up at amazing shapes overhead conjuring animals, people or fanciful places and wondrous creatures…
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I’ve never made a pumpkin pie from scratch before. We have this awesome restaurant chain in Southern California (Marie Callender’s) that makes great pies and I always buy pies from them during the holidays. Why fix it if it ain’t broke, right? But, when I saw this Pumpkin Patch Pals Pumpkin Pie baking kit in the grocery store, I was intrigued…
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As you can see by the photo above, we made $200 in October. This money came from sponsored post activity and not through any other potential source of revenue, i.e., not from any of our affiliate advertising, not from Amazon as an affiliate vendor, and not from Google AdSense for their advertising. If you haven’t a clue about what I’m…
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“Writing is both mask and unveiling.” – E.B. White The above picture and the one below (same picture without the quote front-and-center), is of the “little house” at Summer’s Past Farms. Unbelievably, the Princesses P remembered the “little house” from our visit in 2012 (they were 5 and 2 1/2 at the time) and wanted to go to…
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