Making fresh butter and homemade whole-wheat pancakes

Hi everyone! We were fortunate enough to get fresh cream and milk from my cousin so I wanted to make butter from the cream. I have never done this before, but my 10-year-old had made…

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Meet the Chicks!

 The notion of having chickens running around seems to have been romanticized lately. Actually, the idea of having fresh, organic eggs was what motivated me to mention the “idea” to some friends at church.  When…

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The Old Screen Door

Old screen doors have been calling me for some time.  These screen doors are special to me because they were in my great grandfather’s house here. What to do with them was the only thing…

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The Antique Bathtub

…and I really mean “antique” bathtub. I never know what I might find here, but this really takes the cake. No one knows where it came from, where it was used and we have never…

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The Blue Room

Hi everyone!  I know… two posts in a week from me is crazy. I really have been trying to get back in the swing of things because I love sharing things I’m doing around the…

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Old Bottles and Burlap…

Hi everyone! I hope you are staying cool in this heat. We just got through with two weeks of leading worship every night except one, so we are trying to get a few things done…

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Dreaming of Florida…

I have mentioned that my grandmother, Isabelle, was from Hypoluxo, Florida. In fact, her father, James W. Porter, a Dade County Commissioner, was a founder of Palm Beach County and owned 160 acres on the…

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*Sigh.* 1950s cool stuff

Why is it, when I search out some seemingly obscure item like pink Pyrex, it ends up becoming the most sought after thing on ebay? This is my grandmother’s “pink daisy” divided casserole…easy to find.…

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