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 Books, Food, Home, Life, Recipes, tagged Elizabeth Kostova, Rainy day, Sicilian Cooking, Sicilian Food, The Historian, Watermelon Granita on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
After a week of Vacation Bible School Becks and I skipped church this morning. Instead I made us grits for breakfast and she watched Doris Day/Rock Hudson movies on television while I continued to read The Historian. If I had known this book was about Dracula I probably would not have decided to read it [...]
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Posted in Books, Family, Food, Home, Jackson, Molly, Pets, Pregnancy, tagged Belly Laughs, Elizabeth Kostova, Jenny McCarthy, Lazy Saturday, Rainy day, The Historian on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Becks has been exhausted and asked me to let her sleep late. I woke up early this morning and quietly crept out of bed. I then grabbed both the mutts and with one under each arm slid out of the bedroom. I was able to close the door without it creaking and quietly made sure [...]
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Posted in Church, Family, Food, Friends, Home, Yard Work, tagged Cactus Canyon, Candy, Indian Springs Baptist Church, Pralines, Vacation Bible School on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Jackson and Molly work me up bright and early this morning. I waited until 8:00 a.m. and went outside to mow my lawn. Dan and Kara were coming over tonight and I did not want them to be greeted by the jungle that was my lawn. I was able to get the lawn finished in [...]
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When I left work I got a call from Steve to come over to his place and have a beer. I told him that I wanted to go check out the Mazda3 first but would stop by before I went home. I had been wanting to check out a Mazda for awhile pulled into the [...]
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Today the plan was for Beck and me to take a half of day off and go over to Blue Springs in Madison, Florida with our niece, nephew, Steve and Charlotte. I was really looking forward to going since it is supposed to be a very beautiful area.
Unfortunately, our plan did not happen since I [...]
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Becks has thanked me for trying to help out around the house while she has not been feeling really well. However, she said that although I had mastered the basic fundamentals of laundy I still had two areas to work on. First, I had to improve on putting away the laundry after I had washed and [...]
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