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Boxing Day

The boys were here for Christmas. We all survived the traditional Chinese food on Christmas eve. I love that it’s easy and we spend alot of time just talking,laughing, playing games and not alot of time cleaning up. We decided on fresh ham for our Christmas dinner and I had everything scheduled to the minute so the oven would be available for this giant 9        [….read more]

Why Do We Do That?!

Happy Thanksgiving! There were six of us for dinner yesterday and we all ate way too much…predictable! The turkey was really tasty — plenty of dark meat on this one and that made everybody happy. Despite all the hoopla about brining, I resisted and just prepared it the “normal” way — well, the way I learned from my Mom. Yum! We’re all taking it easy        [….read more]

The Thanksgiving Bird

Thanksgiving is coming right up — ordered our turkey at the Co-op today. It’s coming from The Turkey Farm in New Sharon — all the birds we’ve purchased from them in the past have been delicious. Also snatched up a couple of bags of local cranberries and popped them into the freezer. Last year I waited too long and then couldn’t get any. Starting to        [….read more]