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Mama raised a salad-shaking genius.
One evening during my parents’ recent visit they wanted a salad, so they bought a Fresh Express salad kit. When my mom was ready to make it, she asked for a bowl and tongs. “You don’t need any of that stuff,” I told her. “Just use the bag!” She and my dad looked at me…
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Sun’s out, Bundt’s out.
A few months ago, I surprised myself by making a rum Bundt cake that was actually pretty good. Thinking this might have been a fluke, I made it again for my parents, modifying the recipe slightly by incorporating a little more rum. It again received rave reviews. (OK, I doubled the rum.) Still, when my…
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Sisyphus was an idiot.
Do you know what you were doing on Tuesday, July 11, 2023? Probably not. Unless there was a memorable event on that date – say a birthday or anniversary – you’re not likely to remember a random nearly-two-year-old weekday. (It is National 7-Eleven Day though, so you might have been sucking down a Slurpee if…
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If ice making were an art, we’d call it cubeism.
When we bought our house, we inherited a pretty basic refrigerator. White, no frills, smallish. It’s fairly new (manufactured in 2020), which surprised me. When we were fridge shopping in Rapid City around that time, we pretty much had to buy stainless steel because that’s all we could find. (Side note: we splurged on a…
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You gotta pay the cheese tax.
When we adopted our cats, we wanted to pay homage to their Wisconsin roots, so we named them Laverne and Shirley. It’s not like they walk around saying “Ope” all the time or cheer on the Packers, but they are Dairy State cats through and through. How do I know this? They love cheese. Our…
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Cannabis bliss or yay, Toledo!
I was walking around the yard one day last week, taking photos of our newly blooming flora, when this plant caught my eye. No way, I thought to myself. Can’t be. But it sure looks like marijuana, doesn’t it? This is on a “wild” section of our property with bleeding hearts, ferns, and other random…
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