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  • Getting Our Landscape in Order

    We’ve finally done it – we have a landscape plan for the front yard! It will be a few months before we have the cash in hand to pay for the work that needs to be done…removing our trees, tilling the yard, repair/install the irrigation system, installing sod and installing the new decorative landscape. I.Can.Hardly.Wait. […]

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  • How to Donate a Tube TV

    Slowly but surely I’m clearing the game/craft project room – it’s lived the past 4 years as a dumping ground. For a woman who is anti-clutter, it’s a downright embarrassment. I’m not going to post a photo of the room. Not happening. Anyway, one thing that I determined must go was our old tube television. […]

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  • For You, Taste of Poland

    Who knew that Polish food has so many commonalities with German and Russian food? (Maybe anyone who thinks carefully about the back-and-forth history of Eastern Europe.) Even so, I found the food at Plano’s For You, Taste of Poland to be both delicious and familiar – just what I like in homestyle comfort food. But […]

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  • The Holidays in a Cup

    It’s an indescribable sadness to arrive at the gelato shop on a 80F Christmas Eve only to find out that they closed 5 minutes before you arrived. But if you’re determined, you’ll regroup and return the day after Christmas for a bite of seasonal sweetness… In our case, that was Paciugo’s eggnog gelato. We also […]