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Apple Season 🍎
My Newfoundland dog, Eve, is an apple connoisseur. She loves apples, has her own apple tree and picks her own apples right off the branches. I love making applesauce from my Macintosh apples. They are tart and a firmer apple that stands up to pie baking and a delicious chunky applesauce. It is also a…
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My favorite kind of evening
It’s almost September and you can just start to feel that Fall is right around the corner. The nights are cooler and the sun is casting longer shadows on the grass. One of my favorite things to do is to start decorating for the new season to arrive. One of my favorite dinners to make…
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Growing up Irish
I come from a big Irish family, five boys and three girls, I’m the youngest of the girls. If anyone else is from an Irish family you’ll probably recognize these traits. 1.) My mother not only lit candles in church for the family, she most likely lit them for the entire neighborhood, city and country.…
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Peach pies and chopping wood 🪵
It’s August in Pennsylvania and that means peach season. We have the most delicious peaches here , many types , but in my opinion the Chambersburg peaches are the best. They are not designated by their type, but by their growing location. The flavor isn’t one that you’d forget, sweet, juicy and very peachy tasting.…
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Yes I’m a crazy cat lady
I got my first cat when I was 2 years old. A friend of the family found a little black and white kitten and gave her to me. I named her Murdock and had her for 20 years. I’ve been a crazy cat lady ever since. Fast forward many years…. I have my two cats…