You know how it is, especially if you are the one who runs the household and need to prepare everything for the family you’re leaving behind for a couple of days. So many preparations, whether for farm animal care, meals for the family, packing, laundry–or whatever, life gets a little busy. Still, I tried to […]
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Susanne Banfield, Taste of Home 1 Large Onion, chopped 1 Medium Sweet Red Pepper, chopped 3 Pounds Boneless, Skinless Chicken Thighs 2 Teaspoons Minced Garlic 1 Tablespoon Curry Powder 1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon 1 Teaspoon Ground Ginger 1 Teaspoon Dried Thyme 1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar, packed 1/2 Cup Chicken Broth 1/2 Cup Raisins 1 (14
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September was crazy busy and I struggled to get much of anything actually done. Softball season came to an end with up to four games in a week and I spent considerable time cataloging the footage of the games for future use. Combine that with several physical therapy sessions for both Kinzie and myself, a
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Kinzie is back to playing softball again after her knee injury and actually looking good. I must admit relief. She has never had an injury like this and it hurt her psychologically as well as physically. She was afraid of re-injuring it before it was completely healed. She had told me that her biggest asset
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The extreme heat hung around for a few more days before finally letting up a little. The girls played a softball game on the 21st and the heat index was 120 degrees. Even with every coach and parent monitoring the girls, the catcher for the Quapah Jr High softball team went down with a heat
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3-5 pound pork roast 1/2 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar 4 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon salt, if desired Put pork shoulder in slow cooker. Mix together remainder ingredients and pour over pork. Cook 6-8 hours on high, turning down
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Because I was unable to finish incubating eggs for next years’ layer birds and there weren’t enough to start another full batch when I got home, I ordered 25 Dominique layer chicks from Cackle Hatchery. On Wednesday morning, I got the call from the post office to come pick them up. Twenty-eight very cute little
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Because of the canned soup ingredient, I don’t consider this completely from scratch but it makes vegetables relatively tasty. I frequently leave out the bread crumb topping and just do a stove top method in the summer time to keep from heating the house too much with the oven. 4 cups broccoli florets 3 cups
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Not only are we getting rain in August, we are getting a lot of rain. I originally was going to tell you about the 1.9 inches of rain we’ve received this past week. But we had a serious rain storm overnight last night receiving 4.75 of rain, making the total 6.65 inches of rain for
While I was in Florida helping my parents, I was able to get some work done, but not necessarily work that you would see. I did get the blog posts, a couple of podcasts and videos done but I also got a few of Kinzie’s sports videos edited and to family members. Although I am
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