Fresh material coming soon! As my mother advised Published on December 31, 2020 by Marica I am ringing in the New Year as I hope to end the Old Year a year from now. Year after year it goes on. I am full. The crepes and blackeyes were delicious. I have money in my pocket– silver coins and
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All referred to this morning. Chicago Manual of Style and the Websters live on the rolling cart. The others join later editions of Harbrace, and Little Brown, and form, with a few other references the back wall of my desk. It’s interesting to look especially at Harbrace and see the near continual expansion of the
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As we say in the South, there’s you some color right there! The power line and the storm track line are not perfectly Euclid parallel but they are danged close.
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I am not an artist and I don’t even play one, but this was interesting.
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I have reposted this several times beginning back in the blogspot days– you can tell by the less than ideal photo. This is one of our very favorites, and a marvelous way to use some leftover Christmas ham. Looks as if we made half the recipe this time. Enjoy! Recipe: He Man Casserole Originally Most
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New Printer! Pleasantly surprised. Mr. Big Food asked me on the 23rd what I wanted for Christmas. A laser printer! I am published now, and all published authors should have a laser printer. So I looked and found the one I wanted and then started searching the usual joints. February delivery was the best I
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This cracked me up. I tried to get a screen shot of it but wasn’t able. This is a page in a Word doc with the inserted photo. You know how Word makes up a caption, based on what it “thinks” your photo is? “A picture of a bear” That’s right. Word thinks Missy is
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Ace of Spades HQ Sunday Morning Book Thread The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries Good grief. I will not go down this rabbit hole. I will not go down this rabbit hole. I will not go down this rabbit
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Sort of a gloomy day, but quite warm so we trotted down to the lake by way of the peninsula. Even Rocky got into the water! We scared up the heron which Missy tried to chase. And that was about it. The dogs are currently crashed! Hope all y’all are having a wonderful Christmas!
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures
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Today we will be looking at Christmasy things. Hope you enjoy!
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First in a long line of stuffed animals based on the characters in Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School. (Hey– I can wish upon a star.) [Preview the first three chapters, and order the book at the link.] It’s Tiger! Originally published on January 13, 2021 Daughter C &
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I did not think to take a photograph of this. I’m sorry. It is very photogenic. We served it over egg noodles in fancy Christmas bowls. More importantly, it is really good! It was an excellent recipe to make yesterday, as Mr. Big Food was working on and off all day on the Vanocka. CHICKEN
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Christmas morning on Farther Along Farm with Miss and her pack– including Tiger the Cat! Personal aside– reading words you’ve written from a book is a very different experience from reading words on a piece of paper or on a screen. Preview the first three chapters of Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of
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This is a different recipe than the one I posted the other day. I have no doubt it will be good. ROSE KOPECEK’S VÁNOČKA 1 stick sweet cream butter, softened½ C sugar, plus an additional 2 tsp1 C milk, lukewarm2 eggs, plus an additional 2 egg yolks1 ½ tsp salt5 C flour1 tsp vanilla2 yeast
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This was fun. Mr. Big Food and I took the quiz over lunch. People in song. Below is a list of persons mentioned in 20 different well-known Christmas songs. Can you name what songs they’re mentioned in without hittin’ the search engine? Get your pencil and papers and let’s get singing! 🎄🎅🤶⛄ Tiny Tots with
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