Category Archives: Baking

Road Trip!

It’s getting closer for Kyle to get all his papers completed so he can head to Korea for a year to teach. I think I mentioned in an earlier post that there are more guidelines for getting a working Visa … Continue reading

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Wednesday – a good day for baking

It really bugged me that I am not very good making bread stuff. I mean I can follow a recipe and everything so what do I have such bad luck? With my failure on the sticky buns on Monday, I … Continue reading

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Extra Stuff

The weather outside was again crappy. No surprises here right? Well, it gave me a chance to catch up on some things and to do some baking. I was able to get all the extra stuff out of our bedroom … Continue reading

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December 26th

It’s the day after Christmas and back to work we go. Well, it’s just me this morning. Daryl took the day off and the boys? Well, they are more nocturnal than anything else. They stay up late and get up … Continue reading

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Grocery store the night before Thanksgiving

Tonight I needed to pick up some stuff, so I decided to wait and get my Thanksgiving groceries while I was in town. Man, that was a mistake! The main thing that I needed was some shredded potatoes and I … Continue reading

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And the chickens were nestled…

It’s supposed to get so cold this weekend so I decided that I’d better get the chicken coop all closed up for the winter. I’m not planning on locking them in yet,  but just trying to get ready for when … Continue reading

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The boys & baking pine cones

Tonight Daryl was finally up to skyping with Kyle and visiting with William. With Kyle on the East Coast and not coming home until Christmas, he was more than anxious to see Daryl and talk with him a little bit. … Continue reading

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Winter

The old saying goes, ‘If you live in Iowa and don’t like the weather, just wait a little bit and it’ll change’. Well that’s just what happened these last couple of days. We had such nice weather on Sunday and … Continue reading

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Boiled eggs

There is one thing that has always seemed impossible for us to do. What is it? It’s to hard boil our chicken eggs and to be able to peel them. Now I’ve done my research on this many times and … Continue reading

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The weekend

What a wet and gloomy weekend we had here in Iowa. But I don’t want to complain too much because we had a chance to talk with Kyle tonight and he said that before he could take his car out, … Continue reading

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