Another busy afternoon in the kitchen.  After a morning of cleaning up computer files and sorting things for the upcoming garage sale, cooking seemed like a good break.  John wanted something light for dinner – soup and salads.  At first thought that seems like it wouldn’t take too much time to put together.  Not so, not so.  One of John’s...

This has been a week of digging in to the past in a multitude of ways and cleaning my “mental house” in the process.  First of all, I am having a garage sale in two weeks and have to get through all the boxes that are story my mother’s things, John’s things, my old things, Lindsay’s things, Mary Mac’s things, things, things,...

I just found this post from my blog back in 2007.  I made these yummy breakfast buns last weekend for the first time in 4 years.  Why did I wait so long.  You should try them this weekend.   From March 2007 This morning I made homemade cinnamon buns. I was thinking this was going to be a lot of trouble as yeast breads usually are. I was surprised. I got the...

I was going through some old blog entries as I am moving them over to this new domain.  I love Baxter Black, the Cowboy Poet.  He used to be on NPR on occasion.  This is a youtube video he made about the sacrifices others have made so that we can enjoy a our lives.  We are so lucky to be Americans, yet we often take for granted all the sacrifice that has given us...