Tag: Christmas
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Waste Not, Spend Not
Since Christmas I’ve been trying to avoid food waste. I made potato soup on the 26th to use up potatoes, carrots and heavy cream that were in danger of being wasted. We all had it for dinner–delicious. On the 28th, I cleaned out the fridge and made apple pie filling with some Gala and McIntosh…
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Pretty… Pretty Good
It’s Christmas Day. I feel… well-rested? At peace? Not overstuffed? Is this for real? I guess this is Christmas when the kids are 13+ and you are really, truly trying to eat less. Feels great! Also, unlike some other years, I didn’t try to do too much. This year was simple, streamlined. Despite, or perhaps…
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Abandoned Carts
Tis the season for filling online shopping carts and then, if you’re me, leaving the tab open on my phone for a couple days or months. Sometimes I intentionally abandon the cart, hoping that the retailer will notice and send me a coupon code. Sometimes the cart holds something that really seemed like a good…
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Wrapping Up November
I decided to move this blog back to WordPress, after trying out Substack for a couple months. I just never could get the hang of Substack, and it didn’t seem to get me. My feed was full of religious posts, and when I tried to search for homesteading/gardening accounts, I could never find any, or…
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Christmas 2020
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Calamity Kitchen
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Goodbye No. 2/Hello Again
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Goodbye No. 1
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Hard Truths & Hot Soups
January. A time to reflect. When I think about last year, I feel like it was mostly a good year, on the homefront and in the garden. But it was so tight financially, and we didn’t get to travel. I was so busy most of the time, with various projects, that I didn’t even have…
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A Whiteboard Christmas
Garden State of Mind 