Made a quick trip to the farmer’s market yesterday morning and came home with food sensory overload. One booth has the best angel food cake, another has wonderful local honey, big sun ripened slicing tomatoes and fresh cut rhubarb at another, green beans here and fragrant melons there. Others have fresh eggs, hot peppers, jams […]
Chocolate Buttermilk Sheet Cake
A dense moist cake with the slight tang of buttermilk topped by decadent fudgy frosting, Chocolate Buttermilk Sheet Cake is also quick and easy to make and feeds a crowd. Perfect qualifications for contribution to a potluck dinner. Like our recent family reunion. We are usually a creamy concoction and all kinds of pie for […]
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Last weekend, people from North Carolina, Arizona, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado gathered in our town for the 72nd Family Reunion on my mother’s side! Lots of talking, laughing and eating. We started a new tradition with a sharing table, where we exchanged crafts and bits of family “not quite heirloom” pieces. And a display table, […]
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My project in August for a more environmentally friendly life: use dryer balls instead of dryer sheets. This one should be easy because I can just leave the balls in the dryer. Unlike my reusable shopping bags which must be removed from the car and taken into the store! And the other project is to […]
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The family reunion is next weekend so I have been buried in family history of the Civil War era. Courageous tales of a sister who made dinner upon demand for soldiers on one side of the conflict, a side for which two of her brothers had been briefly conscripted. She stuffed papers in her […]
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We went for our usual walk Thursday evening and stopped to snap a picture of a beautiful golden pink cloud against a background of fluffy whiteness. Colors were absolutely gorgeous — and totally non threatening. Beautiful blue sky all around. Ten minutes later, the sky was black green and tornado sirens were sounding and […]