Coupons? Yes

April 22, 2009

Last year my work load dropped: less income, more time. With the “more time” I worked to make up the “less income” by saving money couponing. Really, you ask? Well, read on and tell me what you think.  This was how I started: I looked in all the bathroom cupboards and wrote down the names of all the products [...]

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True confessions.

April 16, 2009

We are going on vacation. You might say, so what? Well, this is my husband’s and my first real vacation, the kind where you stay in one spot and can walk or ride your bike to wherever you want to go. We are going to an island off the shore of South Carolina so the [...]

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The week of the beast

April 10, 2009

  The Beast by Theodore Roethke I came to a great door, Its lintel overhung With burr, bramble, and thorn; And when it swung, I saw A meadow, lush and green.  And there a great beast played, A sportive, aimless one, A shred of bone its horn, And colloped round with fern. It looked at [...]

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Citrus, floral, pepper or chocolate?

April 7, 2009

The sleet is tap, tap, tapping at the windows. In northeast Ohio a spring snowstorm carries lots of moisture – all from an unfrozen Lake Erie. Rain, sleet, snow … and what’s with the nonstop blasting horizontal wind? And the earthworms all over the driveway – where did they go or are they curled up [...]

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What was my colorful soup?

April 6, 2009

Colorful Soup After 5 servings of chicken and artichokes and red peppers we still had about 3 cups of chicken breast meat and the chicken skeleton. Once a week I buy celery, carrots (the bunches with the green tops) and onions. Plus, I saved the big stems (uncooked) from the fresh broccoli we had a few [...]

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