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Congratulations to Caroline Vencil for her post on Money Saving Hacks from an Extreme Cheapskate!  That post received the highest number of views in recent memory — if ever! — at a Busy Monday link party. Thanks to everyone who clicked through for Caroline’s tips.  As an experienced cheapskate, I learned some things from her post.  […]

Had a wonderful potluck dinner with family and friends on the Fourth of July.   My sister Bee sets up a fantastic homemade ice cream bar with several different and wonderful flavors like strawberry cheesecake, death by chocolate and more.  One of the other guests also brought maple bacon ice cream — very interesting!!   With an […]

Happy July Fourth!!  We had a wonderful weekend with family with a sneak peek at the fireworks to come and looking forward to another gathering of family on Tuesday for the main event.  Lots of good food and laughter, a bit of mischief and teasing and much fun!  Thanks for bringing your  posts to link […]

Celebrated a birthday this week – another milestone for moi!  I hope they just keep on coming 🙂  Wheels invited me to a movie and dinner out.  None of the eight movies available in our town were appealing — the new Cars movie was the best on the list– so I’m taking a rain check […]

A very busy and thoroughly enjoyable week teaching kids every day!  Off this weekend to help a niece and her little son get settled after their move from Wisconsin.  She says it was a legendary move –driving a 15 foot truck  with car in tow over miles of construction for 11 hours at 40 miles […]

Still planting and mulching!   There were some awesome and unique plant specimens in the landscape when we bought the house — one of the things we both liked about the property.   The evergreen trees have almost tripled in size from their 5 foot height two years ago and the shrubs planted along the fence now […]