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Top Ten Reasons to Be Kind to Teachers Going Back to School
My teacher friends and former co-workers in our school district went back to work yesterday. Speaking from 25 years of personal experience, here are 10 reasons to be kind to teachers for the next few days and weeks. 10. Contrary to popular opinion, most teachers...
Bye, Bye, Barbie Zipline
In last Friday's post about the felling of a huge sugar maple in our yard, I neglected to mention a major repercussion of the grand tree's demise. The Barbie zip line is no more. Yes, you read that right. The Barbie zip line. Anne's Barbie zip line, to be exact. Of...
Need Firewood? Come and Get It!
The ground shook along our gravel road today when two talented tree guys felled the giant sugar maple just north of our house. We suspected the limb hanging right above Anne's old bedroom was hollow after another limb from that side of the tree fell in a windstorm...
Fresh Corn and Tomato Salad
The hunt continues for recipes with ingredient lists that match the contents of our weekly CSA share and what's growing in my herb garden. This recipe from Hy-Vee's Summer 2013 issue of Season's Magazine reads like a July-in-Iowa garden checklist. The recipe is super...
Top 10 Reasons to Look Forward to a Cousins’ Reunion
My mother and her 7 sibs were a prolific bunch in their heyday. They and their spouses produced 39 children from the mid 1940s until the early 1970s. This coming Saturday a goodly percentage of the 37 living cousins, their extended families, and a few members of Mom's...
57 Is the New 30 and Other Birthday Messages
57 is the new 30. I have that on good authority. That is, if you consider Hallmark Cards to be a good authority. Which I certainly do. Because my husband gave me a Hallmark Cardon my 57th birthday a week ago, and it said the following: Thirty in great big letters. And...