I saw a few decorations that served dual-holiday purposes, Halloween and Christmas, the residents having creatively adorned them. Got most of the images from a few days of drive-byes. Surprisingly, seems fewer places had decorations than previous years. Read the entire article and comment there, please.
Halloween this year was on a Thursday. I incorrectly guessed that
people would keep their Halloween decorations into the weekend. Besides a
few people having already started taking in items, a few balloons were
deflated. Read the entire article and comment there, please.
Upon moving in, the cedar trees numbered 11. Arborgeddon (in 2023)
wiped out maybe five. The last cedar became weakened maybe a year later;
it could fall and harm or worse in a bad moment. Got it cut and
removed mid-September. Read the entire article and comment there, please.
My first batch of lemon poppyseed mini-cupcakes was in June 2012. Coincidentally, I used the same lemon cake brand and poppyseeds. This time, I tried using silicone pans with square wells. I also enriched the recipe with an extra egg and used milk instead of water. Read the entire article and comment there, please.
It'd been awhile since I'd baked cookies using cake mix. Betty Crocker caught my eye with the Butter Pecan cake flavor. The sale price of $1 was compelling. I tried to duplicate La Moderna Marianita pecan flavor cookies, cheap at about 68 cents for a roll of 28 cookies (6.5 ounces). Read the entire article and comment there, please.
Got frugality inclinations? How about extracting the last of shampoos and lotions near the bottom of their bottles? How about some ideas and suggestions? Read the entire article and comment there, please.
This topic is a followup to March's "See Dere Cedar Stumps" (article, video). ... During a recent backyard weed-pull session, I saw that I overlooked yet another cedar stump. I took a new set of pix. Read the entire article and comment there, please.
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