Happy Halloween! I didn’t decorate…

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I’m just about over Halloween. We live at the end of a dead-end street at the bottom of a hill (read: no trick-or-treaters).

I don’t have the time, patience, or inclination to get into shape enough for the typical “Slutty ________________” costume.

That whole zombie fetish y’all have going on? And that [...]

The Food Issue

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Food insecurity has been a large, looming issue for me throughout the summer (and it’s an ongoing issue). I qualify for food stamps, I had stamps and things were OK – and then it all went down the toilet.

I mailed my recertification paperwork in April. It was due on tax day – [...]

The Mower of Doom is gone

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and I didn’t even take a picture of it on the back of the tow truck. I didn’t want to – I’d rather remember this:

After two years of profanity-laced repair work, the cause of death was the natural progression of this injury:

The teeth on the sprocket broke off. The [...]

I made mayonnaise

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I made mayo, and it came together so quickly it scared me. Not scared scared. Startled scared.

Seriously though. It took longer to measure out the ingredients than it did to make the actual mayo.

All those recipes that say “put everything in your blender and then carefully and slowly pour the oil [...]

On Not Renovating The House

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My priorities have changed. I no longer have to spin my wheels, trying to decide mowing or laundry. Gutters or dishes. Reflooring or toilet scrubbing. How do I afford the desperately-needed kitchen makeover, do I powerwash the outside or replace the siding,

We have to move in the next year: There [...]

Eight years

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I really cannot believe I’ve been doing this for eight years. It’s…really kinda weird. Eight years of blogging/not, domain name changes, advertising/not.

Every now and then I go back and read my old posts. It’s like someone else wrote them…

(Yeah, someone else did write them. The me of eight years ago is [...]

Okay, I’m a little bit better able to talk now

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I do worry about what people read on my blog, perhaps too much. If I find myself upset and stressed over someone else’s entry, it does stand to reason that someone else would be upset and stressed over one of mine.

And I don’t want someone/ANYone to be upset and stressed over something [...]

Chili Honey Chicken Thighs

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Hey, have y’all met Heather at Home Ec 101 yet? She’s my favorite Homemaking blogger at the moment. Why? BECAUSE I SAID SO THAT’S WHY!

*ahem*

Anyways…I bought a BIG pack of chicken thighs on sale and then decided that I didn’t want the same ol’ same ol’ for dinner. I adore chicken [...]

Two birds, one stone

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So waaaay back in February, I bought the house from my Mama.

Toward the first of the month, I read a post on Lifehacker ( Remove Rust from Cast Iron Cookware in your Oven ) and realized I hadn’t run the oven cleaning cycle since the paperwork was signed.

After reading that [...]