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Happy Winter! It was a high of 0 degrees at the house yesterday. Today is a heat wave up to 8 degrees! We are hitting records in Missouri, so I hope everyone is safe and warm. One of our repeat family dinners is Taco Pasta! It is so easy to make and leaves everyone wanting …
Since my son has been running 50 miles per week and 14 mile runs, I started looking for recipes for him. I found a recipe book by Shalane Flanagan who is a NYC marathon winner, Olympic medalist, and long-distance runner that had tons of muffin recipes! I love muffins because you can have them for …
Happy 2019!! I hope everyone had a safe and fun New Year’s Eve!!! 2018 was a pretty good year overall. I am still teaching 6th grade Gifted and Advanced Mathematics, the food blog is still running, I stopped doing paid photography, we are planning to go to Yellowstone National Park later this year, family is …
Good morning! This weekend we attended the 2016 St. Louis Air Show. It was quite a show!!! Wow! All the planes, helicopters and jets you could want. Here are some of my favorite photographs I took at the show. I shot these with a Nikon D7100 55-200mm lens. Why use that camera? It isn’t …
Exercise: I like this Upper Body and Cardio workout because you get upper body strength training in while also doing cardio intervals. The upper body strength training usually doesn’t make you sweat, but alternating like this helps gets your heart going. If you are stuck in the middle of nowhere and can’t jump and can’t go …
Book: Still nothing yet. Though I think I have concluded society’s whole problem. It boils down to a lesson that my kid actually did back in first grade. They had to put things into two categories: wants and needs. The problem is a lot of our “needs” are actually wants. Some people would argue …
Book Update: I finished Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture” and really enjoyed it. A fast, quick read that has a lot of nuggets of wisdom and funny biographical stories. The chapters are very short and can be read in order or out of order. Many professors give a “last lecture” of sorts to summarize …
Book: I got the new Jodi Picoult book, “Leaving Time,” and of course it is GREAT. Because everything she writes is awesome. Swoon. I’m so glad she quit using her courtroom formula! So, if you were tired of that – read this book and her last one, The Storyteller. These are mysteries you won’t …
Book: We finished “Walt Disney” by Bob Scollen and it was a treat. What an amazing life the man led! I am sure there was a lot left out since it was a juvenile book, but maybe that is for another time. I finished reading Desires and Devices: A History of Contraceptives in America by …
We won! Our table at the Women’s Christmas Dinner won for best decorating! Tammy and I took it down before photos, but I promise to recreate the fun Christmas tree napkins and centerpiece. Recipe: I love my baked oatmeals! I love pumpkin oatmeal, and blueberry oatmeal and peach oatmeal and simple oatmeal! And now we have …
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