Last year, I had scads of basil and froze a little. Before the winter was hardly even started, I had put a big dent in what was in the freezer. I kicked myself for not freezing more and vowed to never let that happen again. I spent more money than I care to think about [...]

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The relatives had either moved or passed away. DH’s uncle to the North had always been sickly. He’d had polio as a young boy and was increasingly crippled because of it. He’d gotten so he walked so stooped over that his back was at a right angle to his legs. He told me he looked [...]

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Did anybody even miss me? My DSL was down when I got home from church Sabbath and this is the first I’ve been online at home since then. I took my laptop to work so I could let my sisters know what had happened and, sure enough, they were concerned because I hadn’t posted my [...]

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First of all, let me assure you I haven’t read the 1,000+ pages of the healthcare reform proposal. There’s no way I would have time and, if I did, I probably wouldn’t understand the legalese. Take all the legalese out and I would be willing to bet that it would be a lot shorter. The [...]

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Sunday I got up early this morning (well, as early as I ever do on a weekend) and went out to work in the garden while it was still cool. Considering the days of my Tomato Battle, I didn’t do much or for very long. It took me less than an hour to Take Care [...]

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It’s said a picture is worth 1,000 words so here’s 6,000+ words worth. You can’t see the cucumbers but they’re there. I’ve gotten so I sneak over to the neighbor’s house and leave the extras on the counter and run. I took some to work and couldn’t give them away. They are lovely cukes and [...]

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Mother would tell me over and over that I was so fortunate when I was down with food poisoning because she knew a man in her church who died from it. I didn’t doubt that it could kill a person because I certainly felt like I was buying the farm. She’d say, “He ate soft-serve [...]

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It’s been my good fortune to acquire entertaining in the raw, a beautiful gorgeous recipe book utilizing only raw food. The book came wrapped in plain brown paper and tied with dark red and green raffia “string”. I read on another site (I don’t remember which one) that it was wrapped like a gift. Even [...]

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To being with, I’ll tell you what happened last night. I was so proud of myself. I turned the light off at 9:33 PM EDT. Then I remembered something I needed to do and got up and took care of it. When I got back into bed, I remembered something else. Got up. Took care [...]

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