I am into day two of my annual cookie baking extravaganza! I took the day off from work yesterday and I went to the grocery store in the morning to buy all the ingredients. Nothing like buying 10 pounds of flour, 10 pounds of sugar and 10 pounds of butter to announce […]
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Two follow ups to recent postings: Plastic – I broke down and put the plastic on my windows last night. Just was getting too cold and figured I should probably try to save on oil even though I don’t pay for it. It has helped a little although I can […] My brother and I had dinner at a restaurant this evening that was beautifully decorated, food was great and the atmosphere was just pleasant all the way around. Well, that is until we saw the ceiling fans. There was a large ceiling fan in front of the fireplace then there were three smaller ceiling fans […] It has become cold very quickly. It seems like just last week the temperatures were in the 40’s and nudging 50. It was chilly but comfortable. Now the temperatures are in the 30’s with lows in the 20’s. Thursday night the temperature is supposed to drop to the single digits and maybe […] We had our annual Women’s Yankee Swap Party yesterday. What is a Yankee Swap? Well, I wrote about it last year so rather than repeat all the details of what makes a Yankee Swap, here is a link to last year’s posting: http://www.julianemarie.com/?p=523 Yesterday’s party was beyond belief fun. We had 13 women show up […] We had our monthly free bean supper at church this evening. It went very well. Served somewhere between 65 and 70 people, which is about 20 more than what we normally serve. We lost track of the tally because we didn’t have just one person running the desert table. That is the person who usually […] Woke up this morning a little before 5:00 (in other words, an hour before I needed to get up) and I was freezing!! I looked at the ceiling, where the time and temperature is projected and it said it was 47 degrees outside. That isn’t too cold. Hardly cold enough to sleep with the windows […] |
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