Show and Tell Friday – Stuffed Bird Collection

Hello!  It’s Friday once again.  Time for Show & Tell.  Kelli from There is No Place Like Home is the host, and you can visit more participants by clicking on the graphic to the left.
 Today my show and tell is my beanie baby collection.  Is it any beanie baby?  No, only the bird ones.
It’s not [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #3 – Ground Meat

 We, in this house, greatly enjoy eating meat.  If you are a vegetarian just skip this post.
We eat most kinds of meat besides liver and fish [if you count fish as a meat]; but we prefer good old beef and chicken.  The cheapest way to buy beef is usually ground up; therefore we eat burger [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

Glad for Glass

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Fall Into Reading 2007 & My Book Giveaway

THREE BOOK GIVEAWAY
I have three books that I would like to give away.

On November 21 I will give away Texas by Debra White Smith; four interwoven novels based in East Texas. [In good used condition] ~Arlene from Ever Joyful was the winner. ~

On October 21 it will be To Catch a Thief by Cox, Harris, [...]

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Show and Tell Friday – Rose Petals

On my birthday in December of 1996 I received my first bouquet of roses. That day there were six pink sweetheart roses, mixed with baby’s breath, tied with a pink ribbon, put in a glass vase, and delivered to my door. The card said To You, From Me; and I knew right away who it [...]

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Olfaction – Thursday Thirteen #2

Nasty Smells

A dirty diaper
Rotten tomatos
Mildew
Skunk
Fish
Sour milk
A cat marking its territory
New metal heating
Chicken Coop
When food gets in the burner
Coffee
Burnt Rubber
Wet dog

Wonderful Smells

Chocolate
A new box of tea bags
Pizza
A just bathed baby
Leather
Onions frying
A new book
Freshly mowed grass
Roses
Escape cologne by Calvin Klein [my husband's scent]
Cookies/Cake baking
Lavender
Clean sheets dried outside in the sunshine

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Didn’t Work For Me Wednesday

It was brought to my attention that my dinner plates have knife marks on them.  These are white Corelle plates that we have used for almost 10 years.
I did some research and tried some things.  First vinegar, then a bleach cleaner, then a soft scrub [by this time my kitchen reeked], then lastly straight bleach.  [...]

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Stick ‘em Up!

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A Bit of Scenery

I took this picture for Lauren Christine who likes Beverly Lewis books.  This is Amish country in the general area where Beverly Lewis grew up.  The farm I took the picture from is not an Amish farm.

The picture just doesn’t do it justice.  It was a beautiful day!
God has truly made a beautiful earth for us [...]

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Show and Tell Friday

I vaguely remember show and tell from K-5 and First Grade.  One time I took my gigantic pink stuffed bear.  Her name was Miss Pinky and I had won her from VBS.  I don’t have her anymore, but I would like to join in with Kelli’s show and tell from There is no Place Like [...]

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