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Mar 11, 2013 • Patience is key in many situations. Up until last week I didn’t realize how important patience is in saving time and making accurate decisions. Let me explain. The upper level of our story and ¾ home has interesting textured paneling. Not only is it textured, but it covers all of the walls and the ceiling...
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Mar 4, 2013 • I will brush my teeth – one of us has to. – Lisa I told you that you were funny just to cover up the fact that I maimed your birthday cake. – Lisa putting words in Kelly’s mouth Waldo was the original hipster. – Kelly They can’t...
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Feb 20, 2013 • My husband and I found that one of the highest priorities upon moving into our 1922 home was updating the ancient dishwasher. Our new home likely had one of the first models of dishwashers ever to appear on the market. While it was a gem in its day, the tarnish had crept in long before...
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Feb 18, 2013 • Our backyard neighbors are a lovely couple who we’ve gotten to know little by little during the few years we’ve lived in our historic neighborhood. When we arrived, Ryan lived alone. We knew him as a headstrong bachelor who updated his house room-by-room and window by window with his own two hands and some help...
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Feb 18, 2013 • There are certain trends that I avoid with all of my being; I just run the other way and wait for them to pass. Normally I am successful when I put my mind to it, but there are some that have found holes in my willpower, including flair jeans (the return of bell bottoms in...
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Feb 13, 2013 • Vintage 2006 Do you ever dance with your animals? – Emily <pause> Sometimes I put my cat, Butterscotch, in a bag and swing him around. – That Elisa Girl Present Day People are righteously odd. – Kristin Maple, you’re being an apocalyptic ass hat. – Terry That’s the...
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Jan 1, 2013 • Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2013 is getting off to a great start. Here’s a few laughs to help you ease in to the new year. Make 2013 a year to remember! How’s 2013 so far? – Sarah It’s the Year of the Maple. – Husband Every year is the Year of the Maple....
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Dec 9, 2012 • Country music singer turned TV cooking host, Trisha Yearwood, is ruining my life. Ok, maybe not my life, but certainly my waistline. My husband wanted to watch Yearwood’s show “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” on Food Network last week because she had her husband Garth Brooks helping out in the kitchen. He also said one of the...
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Nov 30, 2012 • Happy Holidays! Oh…you’re so boring! I’m dying! – Husband listening to the radio So I’ll be able to go through the pasture without smokin’ a belt? – Mom about her new mower Did she drop acid at Zorbaz? – Sarah Oh frick – I make myself laugh. – Leanne That...
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Nov 27, 2012 • Throughout some of my columns my friend Megan has made a few cameo appearances. I met her when she asked me to volunteer with her company for a week during Extreme Makeover: Home Edition two years ago and we’ve been friends ever since. We just click. Earlier this year Megan – a small town, country...
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Nov 27, 2012 • I shopped for the ingredients of a Midwestern comfort food one gloomy, rainy day. Just the thought of Tator Tot Hotdish, which I hadn’t had in quite some time, made me look forward to supper. But I had no idea tots were so hot. I posted something on the online world of Facebook that I...
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Nov 26, 2012 • It’s been years since I worked in television news, but every year around Thanksgiving I am reminded of the perfect turkey sandwich I stumbled upon while reporting in the southern Valley. Let me tell you, it was the perfect day. Work ticked along like clockwork, the sun smiled brightly and we were on a fall...
