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Aug 3, 20202 min read
A Napple Crisp for Pre-Fall
A Napple crisp is the perfect way to use up a binful of apples. They were starting to get mushy anyway. It was an 80F degree day today,...
Jul 7, 20202 min read
Wheat Bread Isn't Saving My Life
I've given up the wheat bread fight. Growing up, we had delicious, homemade wheat bread, or we had the wheat bread from the store. I've...
Jun 30, 20202 min read
Birfday Fun
Do you want to know how to be a pretty cool mom? Buy a new TV. I wasn’t sold on the exact reasons we needed a new TV. I don’t even...
May 1, 20203 min read
Family Pie Day
Pi. 3.141592653589793... Oh, wrong pi. Pie. Yum. Flaky crust cradling a sugary-something. And you don't have to eat it only on March...
Apr 27, 20202 min read
Cookies From Kara
Hopefully, the end of this ______ shutdown is in sight. I've used much of the time just to enjoy my children and to work on projects I...
Apr 18, 20203 min read
Lambert's Hot Ro's
Have you guys ever been to Lambert's Cafe, Home of Throwed Rolls, in Sikeston, Missouri? (I know that should say thrown, not throwed. ...
Apr 13, 20202 min read
Celebrating Our Risen Savior and Making Bird Nest Cookies
Three thoughts stand out for the day: Christ the Lord is risen today; Kara makes the best cookies; I MISS PEOPLE! To start with, the...
Apr 8, 20202 min read
I'm Not a Good TMNT, plus Chef Kal's Meatballs
Today's happenings included a time of me on Nintendo with Kal. I'm not too bad at Tetris, but as one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja...
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Pizza Dough Doesn't Have to be Only For Pizza
Necessity is the mother of invention. My mom always says that. Now I always say that because our parents start coming out of our mouths...
Mar 31, 20202 min read
Some Good News and Some Good Lemon Brownies
Kara made some fabulous lemon brownies tonight. We thought we had the lemon bars recipe, but we don't. I know we could have looked it...
Mar 25, 20203 min read
Biscuits and Sausage Gravy Always Taste Right
Biscuits and gravy are fabulous any day and for any meal, such as tonight's dinner. It's also fairly quick--one of the auto-pilot meals...
Feb 29, 20202 min read
Who Needs a Coat When It's Only 17 Degrees?
My children have wonderful, warm, winter coats. You wouldn't know it though, because they don't actually wear them much. Today, at 17...
Feb 24, 20202 min read
Oley's Pizza and Teeny Electric Cars
Tonight was Oley's Pizza night. This tasty place is well worth the wait it takes to get to a table, then the wait for food. My...
Feb 19, 20202 min read
Tuscan Chicken and Drinking Someone Else's Coffee
If I could choose to be endowed with any superpower I wished for, it would be Mary Poppins's snap. Every night after dinner, when I've...
Feb 9, 20202 min read
There's Pizza, Then There's Real Pizza
There's a pizza place in Indiana, near Fort Wayne on US 24 at the intersection of Homestead Road. Our family discovered it in the late...
Jan 26, 20202 min read
Snowy Tranquility
I pity the people who never get to experience the tranquility of a fresh snowfall. All is silent and still. The snow feels like a...
Jan 21, 20202 min read
1934 Hershey's Chocolatetown Chip Cookies
When Kara asked me to make chocolate chip cookies with her tonight, my first impulse was not to do it. I really didn't feel like baking;...
Jan 18, 20202 min read
Overnight French Toast
We had house guests here last night, my sister, her husband, and their three children. Breakfast can tend to be a free-for-all, but I...
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