Dole Whip #1

Dole Whip #1

When we go to Disney, we love to eat the Dole Whip soft serve from the Magic Kingdom and the Polynesian Hotel.  Sadly, you can’t bring that delicious elixir home.  All you can do is eat as much as you can while you are there! I have wanted to make a copycat recipe of Dole Whip […]

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Anna Lee

Anna Lee

My great grandmother was born 131 years ago on April 17th.  I was fortunate to have spent lots of time with her growing up and I have many memories of her. This is her wedding picture from 1902.  One source says she was married in 1901 but suffice it to say, she was a young bride by today’s […]

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Four Essential Crafts

Four Essential Crafts

The four of us who met this weekend each brought a craft to demonstrate to others.  We ended up with 4 great crafts to take home.  The first craft was a set of wine cork succulent magnets introduced by Terri.  First, you had to hollow out 5 wine corks.  That took a bit of digging […]

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Crafty Weekend at Lake Jackson

Crafty Weekend at Lake Jackson

I just got back from a relaxing weekend of crafting with my friends at Lake Jackson.  I took my Olive Spread and my Julabel Sauce for snacks and also enjoyed the tasty food from others, too. As promised Friday, here is the Olive Spread recipe.  This recipe came from The Blue Willow Inn Bible of Southern Cooking. Olive […]

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Julabel Sauce

Julabel Sauce

I am getting ready tonight to go to another girlfriend crafting weekend.  I decided to make a couple of appetizers for tomorrow.  The first is a classic Jezebel Sauce but I don’t like to give a delicious appetizer and evil name so I decided to rename it after myself.  I’m not evil. Now you can […]

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Screened Porch

Screened Porch

One of my favorite places in my house is my screened porch.  I showed you ‘before’ pictures a few days ago and now here it is all spick and span and ready for your visit. I decided to look up the phrase spick and span because even though I use it, I have no idea […]

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Buttermilk Biscuits

Buttermilk Biscuits

My go-to biscuit for the imaginary Julie’s Biscuit Bus is a basic buttermilk biscuit. Really, though, there is nothing basic about this biscuit.  Using butter instead of shortening makes the biscuit more tender and much tastier.  We ate these biscuits with butter and Ghirardelli Caramel Sauce.  Wow! So good! If you read past the recipe […]

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Future Poet Laureate

Future Poet Laureate

Ever since Olivia could write, she expressed herself in poetry.  She is currently a creative writing major in college and was recognized last week for her poetry. We received a letter stating that she would be receiving an award at their honors convocation but we weren’t told which award. We decided to eat with Olivia in […]

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Hooray!  I'm Purty Smart!!!

Hooray! I’m Purty Smart!!!

Guess where I went tonight. Cracker Barrel.  Isn’t it great to get a meal and an IQ test all in one sitting? Always ordered with oranges and cream soda. How do they make it taste like oranges AND cream? What delicious chemicals am I drinking? My seat was perfect.  It was right under the flute! We went […]

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Today is my mom’s birthday. Here she is as a pretty blue-eyed baby. She was born in northeast Ohio in a rural farming area.  She enjoyed a country lifestyle of fresh air, fresh food, and lots of friends and family in the vicinity.  We are a lot more spread out geographically now but we still […]

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