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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

RECIPE: Julie's Fruit Buckle of Awesomeness and homemade vanilla ice cream

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What is summertime, exactly, if not swimming pools and sweet corn, tomatoes warm from the garden and fireworks, blueberries and ice cream?...
Friday, July 6, 2012

For all the people I know who go to the lake...

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

How to Know When Your Daughter's Boyfriend is Officially Part of the Family

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Bobby and Meelyn haven't been a couple for long, but they seem rather permanent, which just goes to illustrate that when you know, you...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Compleat (Bad) Gardener's Guide to Growing Things

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I do not have a green thumb of any sort -- kelly, hunter, lime, pea, you name it, I don't have it. And this in spite of the fact that ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

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It seems that on every House Hunters we watch around here, the couple searching for their dream home anxiously says to their realtor (a pe...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Husbands, take note

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Husbands, at some point or another in your marriage, your wife will turn to you with a suspicious look in her eye and say, "Surely yo...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

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This was my husband's idea of the perfect Father's Day dinner: sausage gravy with nasty canned biscuits, potato puffs and scramble...

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. My husband and I went to the opening night of Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie in Fishers last night to hear Gershwin's Rh...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Humorless people suck

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Meelyn's graduation party is coming up this Sunday, which means that it's just about time to buy all the food we're planning t...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Suddenly this summer....

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So I haven't written a single word on my blog since January 17, I've been told. One part of me feels like a complete slacker, beca...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Pass the Puffs

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Once a winter, I get that kind of cold where I lose my voice. Not a total loss; just enough to make me speak in something between a breathy ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Forecast: snow and wind, then more snow. With wind.

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I don't know who made this "AccuWeather" map, but whoever it was is my personal hero. Not only for being funny, but also for m...
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I'm a happy Catholic; a wife; a homeschooling mother of one teenage daughter and one college-aged daughter; a writer; enthusiastic crafter of countdown paper chains; a Buffy fan, a reader; a Shakespeare teacher; a literature teacher; a composition teacher; a former soap-maker; a minivan driver; an inward grump; an outward sweetie-pie; a history geek; a dog lover; a rehabilitated and repentant former thief of bandwidth; a killer of plants; a soft-hearted taker-in of strays; a reformed housekeeper; an insomniac
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