I think Ella (the princess) will give her Papa fits when she is 15 or 16… and Lily (the artist) will have led the way! We travelled for holidays this ...
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Cajun-Style Chicken Gumbo
Great for a cool weather meal, but light enough for summer! I use dark meat chicken to keep my spouse happy, but if I wasn’t feeding him I would use white meat chicken. Enjoy! Print Cajun-Style Chicken Gumbo Prep Time: 20 minutesCook Time: 25 minutesTotal Time: 45 minutes Yield: 4-6 generous servings Ingredients2 lb boneless, [...]
Cornbread Dressing
This is required at all of our family holiday meals. I learned how to do it by watching my Nanaw make it. Well seasoned iron skillet required. Since I will be celebrating Christmas with my children this year, my mom and I are fighting over custody of the iron skillet (she’ll be making it for [...]
Persimmon Puree | Weelicious ™
Persimmon Puree | Weelicious ™ – Fast, Easy & Fresh Homemade Home Made Baby Food Babyfood Recipes, Toddler Food and recipes for the entire family!. Interesting little recipe — I’m posting because I’m trying to make Sharethis WordPress work on http://ohbabyconsultants.com/
Carrot Cake and Cream Cheese Icing
Carrot cake is one of my family’s favorite desserts. My brother and I had a competition going for a while, but I’ve deferred to him for the annual Thanksgiving carrot cake. But, that doesn’t keep me from making it for family celebrations at other times. My recipe is a combination of 2 recipes from Lovin’ [...]
Summer in Maine
Marie, Genevieve and Lily at Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Lily had a grand time using the iPad2 as her personal camera and photo editing device. I have no idea where Ella was when this picture was taken… or Michelle or Shawn. I didn’t take nearly as many photos as I would have liked, but I [...]
Pet Diaries
This goes around the internet periodically, but never fails to make me giggle a bit (having owned not only dogs, but also having been responsible for cats). You do know that dogs have owners, but cats have staff, right? Excerpts from a Dog’s Diary…… 8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing! 9:30 am – [...]
First Foray in to Ecommerce: Puritee Designs
I recently developed a website for Puritee Designs. Among the items for sale on the site is this burnout tank, sporting a runner design. I think she’s really cute! Size small medium large x-large Quantity
WooThemes: Customizing for a Network Install
I recently migrated the vast majority of famvin.org sites in to a Network (multi-site) WordPress installation. There were, and continue to be, hitches along the way. And there were lessons learned that can be applied in other situations. For example, I use a child theme I developed for the site(s) based on WooThemes Headlines theme. [...]
My other car…
JP sent this cell phone photo from the Earthfare parking lot — either you understand it, or you don’t…
Little January Ice Storm
Auburn plays in the BCS National Championship Game tonight against the Oregon Ducks. Local plans were interrupted by an ice storm that fortunately doesn’t seem as bad as it could have been. Nevertheless, we woke up this morning to a world that seemed to drip icicles. I wonder if those folks who prefer the team [...]
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Journey to myself
- What kind of greeting?Today’s gospel is one of those where the angel Gabriel comes to Mary: The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of […]
- Moments of ChangeI went to hear Wayne Flynt talk about his latest book ( Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives ) last week. It is a memoir and to hear him speak, it was very painful in the making. He dug up events that were very stressful and unpleasant as he recounted [his] history from his […]
- Praying for the EnemyI had a serendipitous conversation with a friend a couple of days ago that started with being tired of being angry. Anger is a very tiresome emotion. It can really suck the life out of a person, and it is pretty useless and non-productive. Oh, I know that there are times when Anger has seemed […]
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