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What do you do with a plethora of pumpkins? That could be a post title – Plethora of Pumpkins! Um… maybe next year! Oh – got off track there for a moment. What do you do with a plethora of pumpkins? Well, you can bake them and make endless pumpkin recipes, including Roasted Pumpkin Seeds with Sea Salt! Which…
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“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, “Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to shew when you are there.” “Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who…
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Day 123 Sometimes, my food journal doesn’t vary much. They say “variety is the spice of life” and I try to vary my meals over time, but sometimes, I’ll cook a roast in the crockpot or I’ll make a big pot of soup. And, since there are only two of us, we tend to eat the same thing (roast or…
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“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing, For charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.” – William Shakespeare This lovely witch (NOT) was a guest at Bates Nut Farm. Scattered among the Scarecrows, maybe she was one of the…
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On a bright, beautiful sunny Southern California day Princesses went to the pumpkin patch to play. Running to and fro’, here and there, So much to do at the pumpkin patch and nary a care. So many pumpkins! How do we choose? Orange ones, white ones, pink and even blue! “I know, let’s test them…
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I love orange. So coming up with a list of 42 Shades of Orange was a “natural” idea for me! An homage to Halloween and autumn, this is a fun break from my ongoing, never-ending household inventory project – my infamous lists of 42! A section of our yard in our old 99-year-old house (we lost it in the 2007 wildfires) was devoted to an…
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