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In late October my son found some orange seeds that we’d planned on planting 6 months before. I planted the three most viable looking ones and only one sprout appeared. Since the sprouting it hasn’t grown much, just this side of two inches– I’m almost confident that its a real orange tree sprout and not [...]

I love you– I really do. But we need to get a few things straight: My dogs will never be vegetarians. I appreciate your sentiment about my animals eating other animals, but they were designed to eat other animals so I’m not going interfere. Besides Greta’s bowels do bad things when she manages to get [...]

You might observe the hour of this posting, and then ask yourself what I might be doing awake at this hour. I’m practicing scales, figuring out my caloric intake for the day, planning schoolwork assignments, throwing another log into the fire, and (somewhat obviously) writing a blog post. Did I sleep and then wake to [...]

But I have a fridge now. When the house broke it didn’t break the fridge, but the thing was old and running constantly and constantly driving our electricity usage up. Matt and I debated for a few days while the old fridge was unplugged whether it was worth sending it in for a tune up [...]

I have to be, that’s the only thing that could possibly explain how freakin’ weird things are getting. This year is starting to show a disturbing trend for our family. Since the beginning of the year we’ve managed to have one good family emergency, dilemma, or drama at least once a month. Matt packed up [...]

Actually I’m in the mood for fruit and flowers. Thank goodness that a cake doesn’t have to be pretty in order to taste good, because yesterdays’ upside down cake was one of the most hideous looking cakes I’ve ever made– but it was definitely a big hit. This pin cushion top turned out to be [...]

I’m making peach-raspberry upside down cake. I just put it in the oven so I have to wait for a tantalizing 45 minutes to actually get to taste my creation. Technically the hard parts have been done. I live in fear of dry mealy cakes though so I went through the trouble of digging through [...]

I’ve been spinning alpaca, some lovely rusty brown and some silvery gray that I ordered from Little Barn, the delivery time from Little Barn was speedy, arriving prior to Christmas, which gives me reason to think that my first experience with them was just a hiccup. For that, I’m really glad because their prices and [...]

Sometimes I think fellow bloggers want to see how badly I want to comment and this is why they continue to use blogspot even after their blog has grown bloated with images and content. With my other blog (pointysticks) faced that problem, it was born on blogger and eventually outgrew it. Last night I ended [...]

Right. Like anyone listens to me. I’m just the one cooking the turkey, what do I know? Good thing that I’m flexible and settle for cooking the turkey early and reheating it before it hits the table. I can’t wait to get back to my computer, my craft supplies and my kitchen. I didn’t manage [...]