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Cranberry Apple Cake
Last evening we were invited to some friends for dinner. These sweet people reached out to us when we moved to California back in 2010 to invite us for Thanksgiving so we didnt spend the holiday alone. They have become like family to us. When we were through with dinner Louise and I went over… Read more
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A Time of Thankfulness
Eight days and counting. Counting down to the day when most people across the land will be sitting in a home, surrounded by people they love and some that are a little harder than others to love. Of course none of us reading this are “the hard ones to love”! Right? Or are we? After… Read more
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Cooking & Cleaning
Originally posted on Chocolate Castles: It’s amazing how “company coming to town” will inspire me to clean house. It’s so easy to look past dusty baseboards and dirty windows. We seem to think that eventually it will rain and get the windows either dirtier which makes us think it’s no use wasting our energy, or the… Read more
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Retirement & Insurance
As the weekend approaches and we are getting excited about going to AZ for Thanksgiving to visit, we have had a “to do” list that we are checking off little by little. One of the items was to get a RX refilled before leaving town, so today we went to pick it up. As I… Read more
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Cranberry Custard Pie *Taken fom Food Newwork Magazine
This has been such a busy week. Because there have been several days of gloomy rainy weather that makes you want to just bake (right? Doesn’t everyone feel like that? OK, maybe several of you feel like getting a book and just snuggling on the couch and reading, but without a chocolate chip cookie or… Read more
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Behind Prison Walls
Saturday I had the privilege of going with a group of women to minister to the Crain Unit, Women’s Prison in Gatesville, TX. There were about 25 of us and as we arrived, we went through the routine of normal checking in when entering as a visitor going into a prison. Because this was a Federal prison, the… Read more
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