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I love this sign. It hangs on the gate to our backyard, pointing to another gate to our backyard. I bought this One Way or Another sign at an antique store in a rural mountain town (Santa Ysabel) near our home. I doubt it’s an “antique”; just a clever, modern sign made to look antique. But, it “spoke” to…
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Sadly, I have nothing on this list of 42 Still Even More Kitchen Gadgets! Zilch. Nada. Zero. Not.a.one! But, I’d like to have a couple of these things, like the pie bird! I really want a pie bird! They are so darn cute! Anyway, that’s why there’s no picture of any of these gadgets. But, I made you a…
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Happy Halloween! Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Boo describes the Halloween decorations in the photo above. The “something old” are the Madam Zelda taking head crystal ball (more about her later), the twigs and branches spray painted black and the picture frame. The “something new” is almost everything else on the table. The “something borrowed” are the books…
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“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.” – Joseph Conrad Happy Halloween! Tootles,
I caught a fever at the end of September and it’s lasted for more than a month. It’s called Pumpkin Fever and it’s the kinda fever you get when you just can’t seem to quit buying pumpkins. It’s an insidious disease that takes hold at the beginning of October, reaches a fever pitch as the 31st approaches, subsides around the…
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These cute and easy Halloween candy packets are so simple, I had to share! We (Charlie and I) are an anomaly. We don’t get very many Trick-or-Treaters. We live out in the country in the middle of nowhere. In fact, for the first 10 years of our marriage, we got zilch. Nada. Not-a-one. Then, a miracle happened. Neighbors moved…
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