Girls On a Roll…
Yesterday, was spent at my friend and neighbor’s home. Cherie’s is not only one of my dearest friends, but she’s also an awesome baker (I swear that’s not the reason I love her!) She and her mother, Marilynn, bake their…
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Waste Not, Want Not… or making Banana Bread
I just love the idea of Banana Bread. You take something you’d normally throw out and voila, you turn it into a delicious treat. At our home, an old banana rarely tossed out. And when you have a Banana Bread…
Favorite 1930’s Sayings
This little gem of a book is a School Memory Book of my Grandmother’s – Maxine Platts Morgan. In 1935, my Grandmother would have been 10 years old. Her classmates have filled her memory book with the most hysterical sayings…
Planting peas…
I woke up this morning to about 3 inches of snow (big sigh.) But Saturday was almost 70 degrees and my whole day was spent in the garden. The sun was shining and the soil is warming up. The first…
Why Make it Do?
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without!” My mom said her mother had quoted this more than once while she was growing up. Born in 1925, my grandmother grew up during the Great Depression, and…