When I am able to collect 4 – 5 overripe bananas they do not go to waste. I quickly throw this simple recipe together and an hour later I have 4 warm mini loaves of delicious banana bread. Since I purchase bananas throughout the year I make this recipe often. I call this recipe Friendship Banana Bread because I wrap…
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A Secret Wedding
I grew up knowing that I was born on my maternal grandparents wedding anniversary, July 2. My grandparents, Ila and Leonard, both grew up in Qulin, MO. This town is located in southern Missouri near the boot-heel of the state. According to Wiki, ‘A post office called Qulin has been in operation since 1881. Qulin has been declared the “most difficult…
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San Francisco + Yosemite + Half Moon Bay
9 Day Itinerary San Francisco Day 1: We flew from the Midwest to San Francisco in the early afternoon. This left us with the majority of the day for sightseeing. San Francisco is a feast for sight and taste! We did not leave before we had our fill of both even though we were only here a short time. Our…
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Cemetery Stone Information Sheet
Free Printable After our Initial Cemetery Clean-Up was complete we were ready to move onto Phase 2 of restoring and preserving our Blackwell Pioneer Cemetery. You can read my 7 Initial Steps to Cemetery Clean-Up post here! Now that the cemetery floor was reclaimed from the forest we had a good view of the cemetery floor. We took the time…
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Ancestral Wedding Photos
As our nineteenth wedding anniversary came and went this past summer I couldn’t help but reflect on the weddings that took place before me in our families. Each wedding was special, in a totally different time and space, and how each are also similar. I have a wall in our bedroom where I frame and hang ancestral wedding photos of…
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