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Helpful Hints
To make self-rising flour: Mix 4 cups flour, 3 tsp salt and 2 tsp baking powder. Store in a tightly covered container. One scant tablespoon of bulk yeast is equal to one packet of yeast Unbaked cookie dough can be covered and refrigerated for up to several hours or frozen in an airtight container for…
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Total Duh Moment
Or maybe even a blonde moment… oh wait, I’m not blonde. haha, j/k to all my blonde friends. I have been before in my life 🙂 Ok so Sunday afternoon after church hubby and I went to my parents house. My dad walked into the kitchen where we were standing and handed me this: As…
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Josie’s Ristorante – Scammon, KS
Saturday afternoon my hubby and I were tired of hanging around the house. It really was too hot to do much, so we jumped in the car and headed off toward West Mineral, KS toward Big Brutus. About a year ago or so we had a really funny conversation about this one restaurant in this…
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Saturday Afternoon Adventures
When I was a little kid, my dad took me somewhere in Kansas to see Big Brutus. Turns out, Big Brutus is in West Mineral, KS. So can you tell how big Big Brutus is?? Big Brutus is the nickname for this massive machine, a Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel. It was the…
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Funny Moments in Life
So we all have funny moments in our life growing up. I’m not going to lie, I’m scared to death about getting Alzheimer’s and forgetting those moments. Those OH CRAP moments when you were a kid that now bring tears to your eyes laughing about it 10, 15, 20 years later. So I’m going to…
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Beat the Heat, We’re Scorching in the Midwest
With the temperatures scorching us here in the Midwest (We’re supposed to see 100 today!), I wanted to share this great little Ice Cream place that’s just around the corner (You know, depending on where you live…). A few weekends ago we went out to lunch with my parents. When we were leaving the restaurant…
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Moose McGillycuddy’s Pub {Honolulu, HI} & Cafe & a Recipe
When I was a little kid my dad called me McGillycuddy. I have no idea why. I have no idea where the name came from. I don’t know anything about the name other than he called me that and I answered. It was one of the very few nicknames I’ve been given. Normally my parents…
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Photography Lesson – dSLR's
So I have been wanting to write one of these posts for a long time. But really, who am I to try and teach someone else about photography? So if you know more than me, please share some tips for me 🙂 So let’s start with the camera history, shall we? I know I’ve already…
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Should I be concerned – or not??
So I’m completely torn if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Let me explain… As I’ve pointed out many times I started dating my husband in late July 2009. He proposed in February of 2010. We bought our first house in (well started) April (finished in June). Prior years to us dating,…
