When we celebrated Thanksgiving by ourselves in the last few years, we’ve never made a whole turkey. It’s simply too big for two people. We usually get a small whole chicken instead and stuff it and bake it, like we would a turkey. We usually make our own stuffing, too...
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On Saturday (10/8), we took a spontaneous trip up to Lake Tahoe. We had been to South Lake Tahoe before, so we decided to pay North Lake Tahoe a visit this time. The weather was gorgeous and the drive was pleasant. We made a stop at Donner Pass to enjoy...
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Today I am linking up with Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness for Friday Five 2.0 Linkup. Ah, the holidays. Let’s talk about the holidays. This seems like such a good idea right now, doesn’t it? The holidays comprise Thanksgiving AND Christmas, right? I love and embrace both and...
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On Thursday (10/6), we had some time to kill in the morning and headed to the historic downtown area in Folsom. Can you imagine that I had never been there? It’s such a cute, historic main street though. We walked around a bit and had a drink at a small...
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I polled on Twitter a couple of weeks ago if anybody was interested in a holiday mug swap and a few people responded, so I wanted to give this a go as a little act of kindness before the holidays. The basic idea of the swap is to buy one...
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Sorry you guys, I don’t know how you’ve been dealing the last week, either turning away from TV and news completely or like me, inhaling article after article after article. I just need to stay engaged and so I’m afraid this link love post will be a little politics-heavy. Therefore...
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I’ve done posts like these in the last few years for NaBloPoMo, because learning idioms from other languages is fun and gives you insight on how language works. Let’s see if I can come up with a few more fun German idioms for you this time around. They might distract...
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We love our Rhineland potato soup and I honestly should make it more often. It might not look like much, but I promise you, it’s so good. Usually I would add “Mettwürstchen” (which is a kind of cured and smoked sausage, very popular where I am from), but since I can’t get them...
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