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Autumnal hodgepodge

Posted in General Musings, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

You knew we lived in the midst of a forest.  You knew that there are mostly evergreen trees in the forest up here.  But did you know that some evergreen trees lose bits and pieces of their needles/branches?  Here’s a snap of a nearby Cedar tree… each fall, all the cedar trees have sections that [...]

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This time, a photo post

Posted in General Musings, tagged , , , , , on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Today, photos instead of a lot of words!  We are currently living in a winter wonderland here in the great Northwest… we have had record setting low temps, and now quite a bit of snow.  Before the snow flew, I snapped this first picture.  Yes, taken on December 11th.
Then we had the renegade Geranium!  Yup, [...]

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The fall baking bug

Posted in General Musings, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Yup, it’s that time of year again.  The time when the fall baking “bug” nibbles on me just a little bit.  I used to bake a lot a few years back when I had two kids at home who enjoyed desserts.  Nowadays I rarely bake anything – but when the rainy days of Autumn set in, [...]

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This post is about food!

Posted in General Musings, tagged , , on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Well, not entirely, but it did get your attention didn’t it??   I’m just starting to catch my breath after the whirlwind of activities the past few days!  On Saturday, we attended the college graduation of dear DIL at Western Washington University.  Summer graduation is normally not as big as the traditional spring one, but [...]

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Cookies and other meanderings

Posted in General Musings, tagged , , , , , on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wow, what a string of great weather we’ve been having of late.  Seeing sunshine and BLUE skies has done me (and I’m sure a wealth of other westsiders) a world of good this week!  Spring is actually coming!  My roses are sprouting little leaves!  The daffodils are poking their green necks up – actually about six [...]

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Fall Baking

Posted in General Musings, tagged , , on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

What comes after “nesting”?  Baking, I guess.  We are in the middle of a nasty autumn wind/rain storm and I decided to risk it and make some cookies.  “Risk it” because living where we do, the wind often knocks over trees and power lines, and we end up in the dark for a time!  So [...]

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