Eating Well, a Healthy Distraction

Many recipes, more than I can cook come to my blogging home, but I save many to a “go to” file as needed. Two found fruition this weekend. As I went grocery shopping I carried two of the recipes with me so I would be sure I had on hand what we needed to prepare [...]

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Evacuated…Again

Update: Our young friends thought they were spared. Upon returning home from work tonight, the sheriff’s office told them they could not enter the neighborhood, not even to pick up things. Thankfully they got their dog and stayed with family yesterday. It was under control last night, but the fire has come back. This is [...]

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5 Months Later: It’s Still Dry in Texas

Back in May I posted “It’s Dry in Texas”. Since then we have not experienced even a handful of showers, more like two digits on one hand. TexWisGirl has a bottle cap as a rain gauge at her blog.  Her little bottle cap remains empty.  Not much to ask…huh?…just enough to fill a bottle cap. [...]

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Is This The End of Our Drought?

Wednesday morning it rained.  It started around 5:00 am and continued past noon.  It wasn’t just a passing cloud, a real Texas gullywasher  hung over our city and poured out almost 1 inch of rain in Houston and almost 2.5 out at the farm.  It came with thunder, lightening and the electricity went out.  Nobody [...]

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A Surprise Award

I am very excited to say that a fellow awesome blogger, of The Self-styled Life , has nominated me for the “Versatile Blogger Award“! There it is! Like The Self-styled Life, I was not too familiar with the award, so as per her post: this is an award given among bloggers to other new or recently [...]

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If Diana had been here (via Emjayandthem’s Blog)

The presence of those who have passed take on miraculous life. Refer to my previous post “Serendipity, coincidences or life’s small miracles II”, April 28, 2011. Tomorrow is the much-anticipated Royal Wedding between Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine “Kate” Middleton and, like many, I have been following along and will enjoy the coverage [...]

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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2010. If [...]

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