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Last March, when my friend Heather and I were making our way up to Bar Harbor, one of the places we stopped at along the way was Milling Around in Newcastle, Maine. But they were closed. 🙁 So last week when the HH and I were in the area buying bread at Head Tide Oven, Read More >>
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Classic Strawberry Jam Recipe Last week I went to grab some jam out of the pantry only to discover we had gone through all the preserves I had canned last year. Luckily though, we ran out just in time because berry season has officially started and all the local stands are knee deep in fresh Read More >>
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Free beef!! As my friend JJ and her family were bringing all their suitcases in to stay a few nights, they handed us a sack and mentioned it was some grass fed beef. From their backyard. There was so much going on at the time, I had the HH stick it in the freezer and Read More >>
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Stay Healthy! I spent a lot of time this past week outside… and it felt great. I LOVE that summers here aren’t too hot {the 70’s suit me just fine}. Weigh What I Weighed When We Got Married {128 pounds} Weigh-ins are the first Sunday of each month. My June 6th weigh in was 129.6 Read More >>
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Hello Saturday! On the list for this weekend: Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, sausage and zucchini on the griddle Go kayaking with Lucy Tape off the trim in the new craft room and have the HH pick up more white paint Dye a bundle or two of wool Harvest radishes Till up a small area in the Read More >>
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Yesterday as soon as our guests left, I stripped all the beds and spent the rest of the morning doing laundry. Which was like 27 loads because our washing machine is so tiny and basically only holds the equivariant of 3 towels at a time. Before JJ and her family came, we went back and Read More >>
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My friend JJ and her family are in town this week visiting Maine and one of the things on her bucket list was to have a lobster dinner complete with fresh lobsters, corn on the cob and potatoes… you know, just like they do in the movies. And well, the only way to get fresh Read More >>
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Hello and Happy Wednesday! It’s hard to believe that our garden was only created a month ago but here we are, already harvesting our first veggies. Yesterday I pulled up our first radish and oh my was it lovely. I also placed an order for a few more seed packets because Botanical Interests is having Read More >>
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