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A Race Well Run: Olympian Eric Liddell
Photos from Wikipedia As the 2012 Summer Olympics in London approach (July 27 to August 12), I was reminded by an article in Decision magazine of another Summer Olympics that took place years ago. It was 1924 when Eric Liddell, one of the most well-known athletes in Scotland, competed in the Olympics that summer in…
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Yum Plum Crumb Loaf
Yum Plum Crumb Loaf…a little bit of a tongue-twister, but it really does describe this moist and tasty quick bread! My friend Ann, who has lots of yummy recipes and had lots of plums from her backyard plum tree, gave me a recipe for Plum Bread that a friend gave her, which I changed up…
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Red Plum Freezer Jam
I’ve never made freezer jam before (or any kind of jam for that matter). My friend Ann gave me some plum jam she had made with red plums from a tree in her backyard. She had so many plums, she had enough to give me a bunch to make my own plum jam, too!
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Burrito in a Cup from CATCH!
If you’ve seen the popular reality show Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel, you’re probably familiar with Travis Lofland, one of the adventurous crew members who travels the Bering Sea on an Alaskan King Crabbing boat. Lofland also has a passion for cooking and has recently come out with a new cookbook called CATCH!: Dangerous Tales and Manly…
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Unfading Beauty
Beautiful, colorful flowers fade in time, but the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit never does! “…the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit…is of great worth in God’s sight.” I PETER 3:4 (NIV)
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Cranberry-Almond Oatmeal Bake
Last week, my friend Ann gave me a recipe for baked oatmeal to try. I fully intended to make the recipe exactly as it was, but as I looked it over I thought, What would it taste like if I added this instead of that, and this much instead of that much…and so on, until…
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A Bushel-Filled Birthday Gift
I have a friend who has a birthday right around Memorial Day weekend. So this year, I decided to put together a gift with a red, white, and blue theme. Okay…it’s actually red, white, and teal—but that’s close enough! 🙂 I thought I’d tell you how I put this together in case you wanted to…
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I Think I Saw a Baby Eagle
Imagine my surprise when I went for a walk in a quiet wooded area recently and saw this sweet little creature! It looked like a baby bird, but it was so big…probably at least a foot tall. I took some pictures with my i-Phone.
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Honey-Sweetened Cucumber Salad
If you are growing cucumbers in your garden this summer, this is a great side dish to use them in! I found a recipe at Our Best Bites that I modified a little…I used honey instead of sugar as a sweetener, used a little less salt, and used white wine vinegar instead of rice vinegar.…
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The Sweetest Sounds
The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. —WILLIAM GOLDSMITH BROWN, American editor and writer (1812–1906) Wishing you a blessed and beautiful Mother’s Day!
NancyC 