Stepping Back In Time…

I filled my gas tank for $1.99 a gallon today.  It’s been a day or two since I could do that.  It almost felt good to pay for it. 
Until next time…
Let freedom ring.

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The First Of Many

Wintertime means fresh, home-baked bread at our house.  My DH loves it dearly, and there’s not another more appetite enticing and sense-pleasing aroma to fill a home than bread baking in the oven.  Yesterday I made the first bread of the season…sour dough bread made in flat loaves.  The wonderful thing about sour dough starter [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

Until next time…
Think about this America…
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ~ Karl Marx ~

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Never, Never, Never

fill a salad spinner with water and spin it!  I don’t know what I was thinking, but I sure made a mess!
Until next time…
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~

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Crocheted Shawl

I love shawls.  They are so easily put on when I’m too cool and equally easy to shed when I get too warm.  They are feminine and comfortable to wear.  Last week I spent two evenings making this one.  I’m pretty pleased with the outcome.
Shawls are perfect to take along to places that are too [...]

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From Start To Finish

Pumpkin pie is a fall favorite for many.  I like it best when the pumpkin is fresh, not canned.  The price of pumpkins are higher this year than any time in my memory.  I made the decision to skip buying one until Friday afternoon when I visited our local Winn Dixie.  They had pumpkins buy [...]

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What $1.55 Will Buy

Isn’t this baby quilt sweet?  I was pleased to find it and may not be able to part with it now that it’s mine.  This little treasure is hand embroidered.  It was pretty stained when I got it, but two trips through the washer and lemon juice in the sunshine cleaned it up pretty nicely.  [...]

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Very Interesting…

and enlightening…for all who have ears to hear.

Until next time…
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept  your soul alive.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

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Daybook – October 27, 2008

For Today…Monday, October 27, 2008
Outside My Window…The sun is shining and a chilly northern wind is blowing.  My windows are open, and Morgan is feeling his oats.  Crowing resonates through the air.
I am thinking…of God’s infinite goodness.  He loves me so much!
I am thankful for…answered prayer.  Over the past few years my flower gardens have [...]

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Grab A Hanky

Until next time…
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
“Boston” Stanza 15
~ Ralph Waldo Ermerson ~

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