Two People Think My Blog is Cool

 Thanks Team Effort and Southpaugh Homeschool for the Butterfly Award.  The rules when accepting this award are pretty straight forward.  Put logo on your blog – check. Add a link to the person who awarded you – check. Nominate 10 blogs that you follow – uhhh – can I nominate those that nominated me?  My [...]

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Flyerland

Once you are finally able to stop the flow of junk mail you might be interested in checking out  Flyerland.ca.

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No Knead Crusty Bread

This No Knead Crusty Bread recipe was in an issue of Mother Earth News – an issue that I somehow missed.  The following issue had many letters to the editor raving about this fabulous, easy to make bread.  Well, I called to get my missing issue three separate times and each time was sent a [...]

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Cookie Baking

Ben helped me make Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies today.  This time they turned out more crispy than chewy for some reason.   Since I found this recipe last fall in a magazine I had been given, the recipe has been oft requested.

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Actually Crispy Crackers

I’ve made other soda crackers and they haven’t been crispy.  I think the secret is in the fat content. I looked at tons of recipes and then settled on a combination.  
Crispy Soda Crackers

2 cups white flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
3/4 cup butter
Milk (about 1 1/2 cups but I didn’t [...]

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P.S. No Phone

In case anyone should try to phone…. it’s not working.  I don’t know why, for how long, but I do know that someone is supposed to come and check it out tomorrow.

Noah and I and “My Jaska” (Noah’s puppy) playing with PhotoBooth.

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Installment Three

On the day we were leaving we went to a friend’s for breakfast.  Graeme was able to come too, since he was finished work.  We had a lovely breakfast and I got to taste “my” pig. (I was on a list to get a pig raised by someone I knew.  When we moved I had [...]

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Installment Two

By the time we returned to “Heart City” Noah was feeling a lot better.  On Friday morning I called a dear friend a few times and she wasn’t home, so we stopped by anyway to drop something off before getting some groceries.  We had the best surprise.  They were home!  On Saturday I did the [...]

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Installment One

The morning that we left on our big trip, we first went to a local gem and mineral show.  The boys got to pan for gold (above), and keep a little fleck of real gold taped to a card.  Zach has been wanting to learn how to pan for gold for ages and it was [...]

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