Posted in Community, Family, Food, Friends, Home, Life, New Hampshire, Nostalgia, tagged 4th of July, Bocce, July 4th, Mike's Red Barn, Salem High School, Salem New Hampshire on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The United States of America is 232 years old today! Growing up this was my favorite day during the summer. I remember going over our friend’s house, Jim and Robin’s, to swim, eat lots of food and play games. Jim used to grill sausages, hamburgers and hot dogs while we’d be swimming and then we’d all eat [...]
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Posted in Church, Community, Desserts, Family, Food, Life, Nostalgia, Recipes, tagged Cookies, Indian Springs Baptist Church, Oatmeal, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies on June 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A group of World Changers are in our area this week doing mission work. Our church is making lunches for them this week while they are in Leon County and I was volunteered by my mother-in-law to make a dessert to go with Tuesday’s meal. Since I have a gigantic tub of Quaker Old Fashioned Oats sitting in [...]
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Posted in Church, Community, Family, Food, Friends, tagged Cafe Marmalade, House Guest, Indian Springs Baptist Church, Jimmy & Millie, Monticello, Monticello Florida on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Becks and I try to make it to church every Sunday and some weeks we are more successful than others. Our Sunday mornings usually consist of spending time in bed watching television, reading, playing with the dogs and having a lazy breakfast. This leads us to rushing out the door and making it to church [...]
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I got home, ran inside to change and then fired up the lawnmower. Our friends, Jimmy and Millie, are coming to visit us from Vidalia, Georgia this weekend and I wanted the yard to look nice for them.
Since I will not have time to cut it on Thursday and they arrive on Friday I had [...]
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Tonight at the Local Planning Meeting reprenatives from Monticello Pines (formerly Monticello Plantations) were present to discuss their preliminary plat prior to the formal review in June. This development is planned for the large piece of land behind the Winn-Dixie and be accessible via U.S. 19 and Coopers Pond Road. Although the land is zoned for [...]
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Posted in Community, Family, Life, Music, tagged Blue Highway, Florida Scrubs, Lawrence Diamond & the Peach Diamond Symphony, Monticello, Monticello Florida, Monticello Opera House, music festival, Purvis Brothers, Southern Music Rising, Southern Music Rising Festival, TZ Jones & the Ontological Elephants on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday Monticello was host to the 1st annual Southern Music Rising Festival. Although it rained early, by the time the event was scheduled to kick-off the skies had cleared and it was a beautiful day.
Becks, her mom, step-dad, Mimi, Pete and I headed downtown to check out the event at 12:30 p.m. Stages were set up [...]
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Posted in Community, Politics, tagged Drinking Water, Florida, Fluoridation of Water, Fluoride, Freedom, Liberty, Local Politics, Monticello, Monticello Florida, Toxic, Toxin on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night was the much anticipated public workshop on whether or not Monticello’s water supply should be fluoridated. Present at the worshop were the same people who had come out to speak against fluoride during the April 1, 2008 public hearing. The first speaker presented a petition with 95 signatures on it opposed to the [...]
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