When that Apple Turns Out to be an Orange

Have you ever been confident (maybe even enough that you argued with somebody about it) that there was one more apple in the back of the refrigerator drawer–making exactly the right number for this great new recipe–just to find out, when you dug down to get it, that that round fruit was an orange, not an apple? Life [...]

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Bethesda Builders for Remodeling Your Home Sweet Home

When the kids grow up, they move out of the house, get married, and soon have kids of their own. You’re left with an empty house, more room, more space. Empty bedrooms turn into storage areas. And if you keep living in the same house, it starts to wear down. Floorboards sag and creak as [...]

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X10 WideEye Camera focused on my preschooler

My four year old son just started preschool yesterday.  He has been so excited to go to school and now the time has finally come.  Micah absolutely loves to go to Sunday School and he loves to get together with other children to play, so I know school is going to be great for him. [...]

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Industrial Wire Baskets for Commercial Ultrasonic Cleaning

Ever think about how important small things are to the bigger things they are a part of? A towering oak tree grows hundreds of little acorns that drop to the ground, littering the forest floor. Yet each one of these little acorns has the potential to sprout and grow into another huge oak tree. Have [...]

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Doomed to Be a Life Long Scullery Maid

Of all the household chores that are now part of my weekly, daily, and almost hourly responsibilities, cleaning the dishes probably ranks at the top of my “I’d-rather-not” list…does and always has…probably always will. If you’ll keep that thought in mind, you will understand that the absolute worst of my nightmares—the kind to wake me [...]

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It is Better to Give . . . .

It seems only right that a blog entitled “Apple Crisp” should have at least one recipe for apple crisp. There are a whole lot of them out there–in 0.15 seconds, Google gave me 162,000 results for apple crisp recipes. That’s a lot of apples! With such a resource for inspiration, it shouldn’t be hard to find some way to [...]

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Yummy gifts for the tummy

I think it’s always nice to give a gift of homemade yummies.  When someone is feeling down or they can’t get out for one reason or another, it’s always nice to have someone stop by with a little gift to perk up their sweet tooth.   Apple crisp, apple pie, anything dessertish is always a good [...]

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There used to be apple crisp in that bowl!

My 4 1/2year old has suddenly decided that he likes Apple Crisp.  Not only does he like it, he “loves” it!  He can be so funny.  Sometimes it takes a little bit of coaxing to try new things but once he does he usually finds that he likes things.  With the apple crisp he wasn’t [...]

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Custom Flash Drives for Musicians

CFgear.com is a company, based in South Dakota, that deals only in Compact Flash-related Gear. They have an amazing variety of flash drives available, from the standard, no-frills, ol’ reliable to the fancy schmancy flash drive that’s built into a wrist band. One of their recent partnerships has matched their flash drives with IndieDrive.com, a [...]

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Cooking with USB Flash Drives

Opening up my laptop, I pop in my handy recipe flash drive (if you didn’t read that post already, better backtrack and digest that one first!) and choose the topic of my liking: Apple Crisp recipes (of course!).  There’s even a video short preloaded on this USB drive, so I click play and watch good ol’ [...]

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