November 2011

Stash Report – Week 48 – 2011

November 27, 2011

Last stash report for November. Where has this year gone? Once again, nothing added and nothing used. I sewed a lot this week but it was still yardage that had been counted. Do my stash reports all sound the same each week? Used this Week: 0 yards Used year to Date: 276.75 yards Added this [...]

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The Flour Dilemma

November 26, 2011

In MO, I was so spoiled having the Amish close by. I could buy a 50 pound bag of Wheat Montana flour for $25 — that’s 50¢ per pound so when I look at King Arthur flour in the stores here for $4.49 for a 5 pound bag, that’s almost 90¢ per pound and I [...]

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Saturday Morning

November 26, 2011

No amount of coaxing or bribing or offers of food was going to get Vince to come to the new house with me this morning so I’m here alone. I had planned to can the turkey broth that wasn’t going to be used in the soup but the vent hood arrived yesterday and I want [...]

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Putting the Gas Stove to Work

November 25, 2011

This morning I wanted to go to the new house. Heck, that’s what I want to do every morning. Vince didn’t want to go. But then he said he wanted sausage for breakfast and we had no sausage at the rental so I told him I’d go to Brookshire’s, get sausage, fix breakfast at the [...]

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Yarn Shopping

November 25, 2011

Just to be sure I didn’t miss the sale at Eat, Sleep, Knit this morning, I set my alarm. I knew I’d be awake before 8, which is when I could place my order, but I also knew that I’d wake up a dozen times during the night to check the time and be sure [...]

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The Mail Box Saga

November 25, 2011

How simple can it be to put up a mail box at our new place? Not very simple at all. We aren’t really that dumb and everyone else in this town seems to have a mail box so surely we could figure this out . . don’t you think? Do you realize that most [...]

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