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I like that Brad calls looking for something a ‘quest’. It sounds so much more noble than ‘dorking around Lincoln looking for cake mix’. While Lloyd was at choir today, I drove around looking for a grocery store that carries Jiffy Devil’s Food cake mix. (Every so often I have a hankering for chocolate cake, [...]

Lloyd drives the Eggplant to and from school on Wednesdays, and the past few weeks I’ve been meeting him downtown for a ride home.  Last week we stopped at the farmer’s market for hamburgers, but all they had were cold polish sausages.  Tonight they had FABULOUS hamburgers, and I’m not saying that just because I [...]

I love Italian dressing so much.  If they put it in a pop-top can I’d probably drink it.  I was going to eat an avocado drenched in I.D.* for dinner, but Annette called and we went out for burgers at R.O.’s.  We saw the Pester family there!  Anyway, I struggled all evening not to eat [...]

What you see here is a delicious cucumber from Beth’s garden.  Since I have no gardening skills, I try to surround myself with good gardeners with surplus produce.  (Thanks, Beth.)  At one of my home visits last night a family gave me a bucket of tomatoes.  Awesome! Anyway, I made that vinegar-sugar pickle stuff with [...]

I’ve decided to change careers. I’m done teaching – instead I want to be one of those ladies who sits around eating yogurt all day, comparing it to everything else in life. “This is better than (verb) (adjective) (noun/situation) good.” You know what I’m talking about? The two who obviously have some sort of ‘flavoring’ [...]

As I think I’ve said before, I’m not a big ice cream eater. In the summer, though, I have a hard time resisting Drumsticks – especially at a gas station. There it is, just sitting in the cooler by the cash register in its individual wrapper, tempting me with it’s chocolatey goodness. I usually regret [...]