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Happy Sunday! It is fall and Sunday so that = football. Or if you are me that means rehearsal for the Christmas play 🙂 This year we will be performing Smoke on the Mountain on November 30-Dec. 2nd. I will be playing the part of June who proudly proclaims “I don’t sing. I sign.” So …
Book Update: Book Club has read a lot of really great books this year! The latest one I read was Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman. I am a sucker for non-fiction, so the book fit the bill with being historical fiction and gives the reader a “Newsies” kind of story with coal workers instead of …
Need a super quick and easy chili for a pot luck? This is what I made for our rehearsal of “A Christmas Carol: Radio Play” and it was soooo good! I shouldn’t make it anymore because I ate 3 bowls of it myself. I knew people would be bringing chicken sandwiches, so I thought I …
Hey Everyone! I’m still alive 🙂 Just took a long pause to continue my photography and teach 4th grade full-time for a few months. Next month I will be a full-time student at the University of Missouri and possibly part or full-time teacher as well… we’ll see how this goes. 🙂 But hey, we are …
Good morning! A very busy few weeks updating the new photography website Mary Riley Photography LLC. I have some work below as well from a workshop I took on posing a baby. The photos and editing are all mine. The posing presented by Stephanie Cotta Photography. Recipe: I just love pork tenderloin!!! It …
This Fall I received a super awesome book that you may want to add to your cookbook collection: The Chili Cookbook by Robb Walsh. If you want to learn about making chili, this is THE book for you. Mr. Walsh has included every single chili recipe category in the book along with a …
Book Update: “I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!” Louisa May Alcott said it. Not me! Ahhh, you gotta love those non-conforming transcendentalists. Oh wait. Everyone conformed before the 1960’s. Right? 😉 This is a new favorite find at Trader Joe’s. Organic Brown Rice and Quinoa Spaghetti Pasta. My kids would never eat the whole wheat …
Greetings everyone! I’m so happy we have some new readers from Money Saving Mom and from Blogelina with us. Today I would like to share with you the new friends we have in our backyard. They like our bird feeder quite a lot! There are normally about 8 of them together, but here is a …
Book Update: Still taking my vacation time to watch “The Good Wife”! Recipe: This recipe gets to the heart about why I can’t stand most slow cooker recipes – they turn the food to mush. Leaving most of our food to cook for 8 hours a day is really, really gross. But, I’ve learned that …
The snow and football mean chili season. We often used deer meat and/or ground beef in our chili. I am including this with a picture of my dad. He died from a heart attack last Saturday after getting his deer. Daddy raised five girls (yes, five), worked for Schnucks Supermarkets for over 43 years and …
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