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New Dress A Day – This blog went immediately to my favorites list.   Can one woman, armed with creativity and $365, come up with a new outfit every day for a year?  You’ll never look at thrift shop clothes in the same way after seeing her creations. Chocolate Bread – I’ve been busy over at [...]

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TV in the Forest

When we lived in Bellevue we got our TV via satellite and watched it with the help of our very handy DVR.  The picture was great.  We had lots of channels.  The DVR made watching and recording TV shows a snap. Then we moved to the forest. Because of the many, many trees surrounding our [...]

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Spiral-Cut Ham Help

The Man of the House and I are big fans of spiral-cut ham.   It’s tasty.  It’s easy to serve.  The leftovers go into ham sandwiches, scalloped potatoes and casseroles.  It’s going to be on a lot of people’s menus for Easter and you know that it will be on ours. When we first started cooking [...]

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Printer Problem

Years ago I bought an Epson Stylus CX6400 printer.  It prints.  It scans.  It copies.  It’s a little workhorse.  That is, it was until today. Today we powered it up and were greeted with an error message.  The message was vague and just said there was a problem and that we should take the printer [...]

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Cold Season

It’s cold season here.  I’m not talking about the temperatures dipping below freezing at night.  (Which they really are.)  What I’m talking about is the fact that the Man of the House and I both have colds.  I’m consoling myself with the fact that at least it’s not the flu. In the meantime here are [...]

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All Is Well

Our windstorm turned out to be no big deal.  The winds weren’t as severe as expected.  Although, the bad winds did last longer than initially predicted.  The power flickered last night, but stayed on. Here are some links that I’ve been meaning to share with you. Moving Full Carboys – Did you wonder how we [...]

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Bread Machine Diva Posts

As you may know, I also publish the  Bread Machine Diva blog.   I started the Diva blog after it became evident that I could write about my bread machine and never stop. For those of you that share my fascination with the bread machine, take a look at the left-hand sidebar of the page.  Underneath [...]

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Seattle Area Movers

Recently we hired movers to move an item that was just too big for us to move on our own.  Hiring movers is scary.  I’m sure we’ve all heard horror stories about things being broken, exorbitant charges and items that disappear during the move.  I was scared. To give us a place to start The [...]

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