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Wow, what a whirlwind couple weeks!  From going back to Virginia, to Michigan and then to Denver, it kind of feels like a Monday, not Friday!  I didn’t get home until 10:30 last night and after talking to Hannah and Jacob, then unpacking and going to bed, I didn’t even download the last of my pictures from yesterday.  I got to taste test sauces for...

Wow, what a whirlwind day yesterday was!  Up early to meet everyone down in the lobby of the hotel.  A few people went to a cow ranch, while the rest of us went on a retail shopping tour of how beef gets to different kinds of retail establishments.  I chose this excursion because that’s what matters to me most – how to look for good...

Glad to tell you all that I have cracked my fear of flying.  I guess flying more than once every two or three years helped – I think this is my third flight this year which is unheard of for me. I got her the same time as fellow blogger Vanessa from French Foodie Mom who also lives in the Chicago area.  We had some...

When I first got my cousins invitation to her sons high school graduation, the first thing I did was to go on Google maps and see how far away it was.  The first route told me it was six hours and 42 minutes from my Mom’s house and knowing that I couldn’t take any additional days off of work, knew that this was going to...

Let’s start things off with the winner of the FreshTECH Electric Water Bath Canner + Multi-Cooker: True Random Number GeneratorMin: 1  Max: 47 Result:  30 Elaine I remember canning tomatoes for the first time in an apartment and my dad had to bring me his turkey fryer pot because I didn’t have one that was big enough! Congrats Elaine!  Shoot me your mailing address and...

One thing I realized when I was flying home this last trip was that I no longer got butterflies in my stomach.  I got butterflies every time I was coming home to see Tony.  It didn’t matter if I had been at work all day or away on a trip without him for several days.  This time I was just. . . coming home.  I...

Depending on your age, I think almost everyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s grew up with someone in their family canning.  For me, it was my Grandma and my Mom.  My first experience with canning was when we would pick my grandmas almost black purple grapes into a big basket and would carry them into the kitchen of my Grandma’s house.  There she would...

So after doing a tiny bit of research, turns out EOS brand lip balm has no SPF except for the yellow/lemon version.  So while I kept reapplying EOS to my lips all day Saturday, it did nothing to protect my lips. That is a comparison from Tuesday to yesterday.  This morning I have two more scabs on my upper lip, but I’ll spare you the...

So not surprisingly, Hannah and Jacob didn’t cook much while I was gone and obviously if you don’t cook, you aren’t going to be doing any grocery shopping.  I had about 15 minutes yesterday morning before I had to leave to figure out what I was going to eat, and after about a minute of seeing what was left in the fridge, I honestly was...

Wow, what a whirlwind weekend I had!  I knew it was going to fly by but it literally felt like a stepped off the plane and before I knew it I was getting back on one!  I am happy to say that now that I have more flying under my belt, I am not nervous at all about flying.  Nice! The first day I got...