So tonight I’m going to use my other chuck roast. When I bought the chuck roast expressly for the Pioneer Woman pot roast recipe last week, I found a great buy-one-get-one-free special, so the 2nd one has just thawed and is ready for action. (NOTE: The pot roast was delicious, but I think I might … Read more
In this cold weather, I was thinking fondly about the butterfly garden I had planted in my backyard in Florida. I planted most of the stuff in July 2003, after my summer veggie crop croaked from either baking to death in the hot FL sun or rotting to death from torrential FL rains. But these … Read more
Who thinks this might be a lazy thing to do? This is a first for me, making uniform thank you cards. But HOLY COW, thanks to Google Picasa and Walgreen’s, it’s quite easy to do. I was able to do everything while sitting on my ass at the computer…and the next time I swung past … Read more
Came across this tonight. As Paul would say: “Pleh.”
So tonight I attempted PW’s Blackberry Cobbler #1 recipe. I attempted it earlier this month without the self-rising flour and it was not quite what we were expecting. I don’t even think I posted about it, it was so disasterous. So this week I picked up a small bag of self-rising flour (I’d never purchased … Read more
My Mom took me to do Glamour Shots just before she and my sister moved to Guam when I was in college. Enjoy!
My attempt at another high-class activity posting. Wouldn’t it be cool to get to spend the Year of the Dragon Chinese New Year in BEIJING, of all places? Well, Dave and I had that privledge, but the Chinese tour guide didn’t think there’d be anything for us to see in that department, so we didn’t … Read more
On Friday I took the boys to the Build a Bear store in Durham so the boys could use their Christmas gift cards from Cousin Jenn. Timmy was sound asleep when we got there, so Jake was able to go through the bear-making process on his own, and Timmy awakened right before I paid for … Read more
I’m trusting that most of you have figured it out by now. Obviously you can’t just click a site and hear the song, but you could go here and watch the video. Now…when I came up with the name, Dave was thinking of a different song.
It’s laundry day in the Vollmer house. For those who don’t know, I HATE laundry. Always have. I was quite lucky as a kid — I did a lot of chores in my house growing up (washing dishes, mowing the lawn) but laundry was never one of them. I think my Mom had her way … Read more