I spent a lot of my childhood at the farm when it was my grandparents’ home. That includes lots of Halloween fun! We still get pumpkins for fall decorating, but when I was little I’d carve Jack O Lanterns with my cousins. These pictures were taken in the farm kitchen (that was torn off and […]
For the month of October I will be reviewing Extracto Coffee’s Eleven of Spades. I really like this coffee and would like to try some of their other varieties. According to their website: Our espresso blend is exactly right for all brewing methods. Silky Smooth chocolate throughout, sweet dark fruit tones and a lingering German […]
I love cookies. Every year when the Girl Scouts are mobilized I buy an extra box of Samoas and leave them in my refrigerator until my birthday as an exercise of self control. That doesn’t mean I can’t have delicious cookies other times of the year though! Today I’m sharing my favorite recipe for oatmeal […]
I love soup weather and it’s definitely been soup weather the past couple of weeks. This past weekend I made a big pot of potato soup. I don’t make it exactly how my mom makes it because I like it thicker, but essentially it’s the same recipe plus or minus some flour. The first step […]
Because of a dumb accident on my part I now deal with 8 pieces of Velcro multiple times per day. This is 8 pieces of Velcro that I have to fasten and unfasten multiple times a day. It’s too much Velcro. In my last post I briefly mentioned that I broke my ankle. I was […]
The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. -James Faust Happy birthday to the best mom a girl could have! (She won’t actually see this today as she’s spending her birthday at the lake!)
Last year I started buying Fiesta dishes around the time Homer Laughlin announced they were having a tent sale in Columbus, Ohio. Their tent sales feature their dishes with slight flaws at extremely discounted prices. I spent a year anticipating their second sale in Columbus. I even took the day off again from work. Then. […]
This month I’ll be doing a Supersonic Coffee review of two of their varieties. This coffee was all about the presentation. The bags are custom printed foil (inside and out). The coffee ordered was Alto De La Cruz. They also sent a sample of Kathakwa and a handwritten note. Supersonic Coffee Alto De La Cruz […]
It’s rare that I actually go to a coffee shop other than Starbucks during my bi-weekly grocery shopping trips. When I do, it’s almost always a treat. This week I’m in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a business trip and Fortezza Coffee kept coming up on my map when looking for somewhere to eat dinner. This […]
I’ve been working too many hours. I’m working on balancing work and fun, but I’ve never been much good at it. Because of that I’ve been spending my weekends pretending I know nothing about computers. I might look up something on my phone, but I avoid the laptop. The garden is thriving pretty well–but I […]