I am putting up my Christmas tree while planning my Thanksgiving menu with a skeleton in my front yard

I LOVE LOVE the holidays. I go all in. I start Christmas shopping October 1st, decorate the porch for fall, pumpkins and hay bales everywhere. I absolutely do not stray from the traditional Thanksgiving meal of turkey with all the trimmings. My family would boycott and picket in front of the house. Christmas music isContinue reading “I am putting up my Christmas tree while planning my Thanksgiving menu with a skeleton in my front yard”

The great purple beet explosion of 1984

When I was 16, my mom and grandma were teaching me how to can. We were working on canning jars of purple beets in a pressure canner. The next round of jars were in, the canner sealed. However, one of the jars did not hold. It exploded and caused the lid to blow off theContinue reading “The great purple beet explosion of 1984”

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